Merchants of Virtue

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit  www.luminosoa.org  to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences 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