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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents a book talk
by Divya Cherian of Princeton University.What did it mean to be Hindu in
pre-colonial India? Through a discussion of everyday life and local politi
cs in the kingdom of Marwar in the eighteenth century\, this presentation
will show that an alliance between existing landed elites and a newly asce
ndant mercantile class remade the category “Hindu.” A key element of this
new articulation of an early modern Hindu identity was vegetarianism and a
n embrace of non-violence. \;Divya Cherian is a historian of early mod
ern South Asia. She is an assistant professor in the Department of History
at Princeton University. Her book\, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus\, Muslim
s\, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (University of Cali
fornia Press\, 2023)\, offers a fine-grained study of pre-colonial reconfi
gurations of the Hindu Self and its inadmissible Others pursued through lo
cal politics\, state law and bodily practice.This event is co-sponsored by
the Departments of History and Religion.
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SUMMARY:Merchants of Virtue: Hindus\, Muslims\, and Untouchables in Eightee
nth Century India
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center
presents a book talk by Divya Cherian of Princeton University.
What did it mean to be Hindu in pre-colonial India? Through a discussion o
f everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in the eightee
nth century\, this presentation will show that an alliance between existin
g landed elites and a newly ascendant mercantile class remade the category
“Hindu.” A key element of this new articulation of an early modern Hindu
identity was vegetarianism and an embrace of non-violence. \;
Divya C
herian is a historian of early modern South Asia. She is an assistant prof
essor in the Department of History at Princeton University. Her book\, "Me
rchants of Virtue: Hindus\, Muslims\, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Centu
ry South Asia" (University of California Press\, 2023)\, offers a fine-gra
ined study of pre-colonial reconfigurations of the Hindu Self and its inad
missible Others pursued through local politics\, state law and bodily prac
tice.
This event is co-spons
ored by the Departments of History and Religion.
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