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Merchants of Virtue 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 veget...

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Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2023
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.139

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