Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India

Speaker/Title: Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University
Bio: Divya Cherian is a historian of late pre-colonial and early colonial South Asia. She is an assistant professor at the Department of History at Princeton. Her book, Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia is forthcoming in December 2022 with the University of California Press. The book offers a fine-grained study of pre-colonial reconfigurations of the Hindu Self and its inadmissible Others pursued through local politics, state law, and bodily practice. Divya is now working on her next book project, which is a history of magic, sex, and political life in pre- and early colonial India.
Music Selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKanKNT8R38 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbSVlCS0-g