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"""Divya Cherian’s Merchants of Virtue is a vibrant and engaging intervention in the historiography of South Asia and caste history. Its strong arguments, rich analysis of historical sources, and careful scholarship will prove stimulating for scholars of South Asia, South Asian religions, history, the social sciences, and archival studies."" * Reading Religion *"

""Divya Cherian’s Merchants of Virtue is a vibrant and engaging intervention in the historiography of South Asia and caste history. Its strong arguments, rich analysis of historical sources, and careful scholarship will prove stimulating for scholars of South Asia, South Asian religions, history, the social sciences, and archival studies."" * Reading Religion * ""Cherian’s work does a superb job of reading the fine-grained archival evidence of evolving caste identities within a minutely detailed regional history while also making connections to the global patterns and regional networks that made this transformation a historically significant one. It brings forth new questions about the degree to which regional networks drove larger social changes, while still preserving the nuances and counternarratives that may be traced in this framing.""   * Eighteenth-Century Studies *

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Divya Cherian is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.

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