Thursday, 5/2/2024, 3:30 – 5 p.m. PDT
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South AsiaLecture from Divya Cherian (Princeton University)
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What did it mean to be Hindu in pre-colonial India? Through a discussion of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in the eighteenth century, this presentation will show that an alliance between existing landed elites and a newly ascendant mercantile class remade the category “Hindu.” A key element…