Merchants of Virtue. Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia.
California. University of California Press. (Circa 2023). Stock ID #216653 "This book explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity." (Publisher's description). When referring to this item please quote stockid 216653.
Maps, coloured photographic illustrations, x + 260pp, notes, bibliography, index. Head of cover slightly soiled, very good paperback copy.
Price: $33.00 AU