Divya Cherian
Biographic Data
| ID | 323714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Divya Cherian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Divya |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherian |
| SIGNATURE | CHERIAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2702-3670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Discussing Hindu Studies From the Inside Out
BODY, HISTORY, MYTH: EARLY MODERN MURALS IN SOUTH India. By Anna Lise Seastrand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 294. Hardcover $65.00. KRISHNA'S MAHABHARATAS: DEVOTIONAL RETELLINGS OF AN EPIC NARRATIVE. By Sohini Sarah Pillai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover $90.00. MERCHANTS OF VIRTUE: HINDUS, MUSLIMS, AND UNTOUCHABLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH ASIA. By Divya Cherian. Oakland: University of Californi…
The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia
Historians of Islamic occult science and post-Mongol Persianate kingship in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires have in recent years made clear just how central this body of knowledge was to the exercise of imperial power. Alongside, scholarship on tantra has pointed to its diffuse persistence in the early modern period. But what dynamics beyond courts and elite initiates did these investments in occult science and tantra unleash? Through a …
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Note on Transliterations and Citationspluralizing South Asian language words, I follow the English-language pattern of adding an "s" at the end of the word.This book relies on an examination of more than seventy volumes of the Jodhpur Sanad Parwāna Bahīs (discussed in the introduction and chapter 1), annualized compilations of the orders and decrees of the Rathor crown in Jodhpur to its district officers.When citing these records, I have abbrevia…
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia
What did women's bodies in pre-colonial South Asia have to do with the birth of capitalism? South Asia's pre-colonial integration into a globally emerging, early modern capitalist order reached deep into the hinterland to transform both state and society in eighteenth-century Marwar. Driving the change was an emergent elite, consisting largely of merchants, that channelled its energies towards reshaping caste. Merchants, in alliance with Brahmans…
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia
What did women's bodies in pre-colonial South Asia have to do with the birth of capitalism? South Asia's pre-colonial integration into a globally emerging, early modern capitalist order reached deep into the hinterland to transform both state and society in eighteenth-century Marwar. Driving the change was an emergent elite, consisting largely of merchants, that channelled its energies towards reshaping caste. Merchants, in alliance with Brahmans…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Note on Transliterations and Citationspluralizing South Asian language words, I follow the English-language pattern of adding an "s" at the end of the word.This book relies on an examination of more than seventy volumes of the Jodhpur Sanad Parwāna Bahīs (discussed in the introduction and chapter 1), annualized compilations of the orders and decrees of the Rathor crown in Jodhpur to its district officers.When citing these records, I have abbrevia…
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia
What did women's bodies in pre-colonial South Asia have to do with the birth of capitalism? South Asia's pre-colonial integration into a globally emerging, early modern capitalist order reached deep into the hinterland to transform both state and society in eighteenth-century Marwar. Driving the change was an emergent elite, consisting largely of merchants, that channelled its energies towards reshaping caste. Merchants, in alliance with Brahmans…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Note on Transliterations and Citationspluralizing South Asian language words, I follow the English-language pattern of adding an "s" at the end of the word.This book relies on an examination of more than seventy volumes of the Jodhpur Sanad Parwāna Bahīs (discussed in the introduction and chapter 1), annualized compilations of the orders and decrees of the Rathor crown in Jodhpur to its district officers.When citing these records, I have abbrevia…
The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia
Historians of Islamic occult science and post-Mongol Persianate kingship in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires have in recent years made clear just how central this body of knowledge was to the exercise of imperial power. Alongside, scholarship on tantra has pointed to its diffuse persistence in the early modern period. But what dynamics beyond courts and elite initiates did these investments in occult science and tantra unleash? Through a …
Discussing Hindu Studies From the Inside Out
BODY, HISTORY, MYTH: EARLY MODERN MURALS IN SOUTH India. By Anna Lise Seastrand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 294. Hardcover $65.00. KRISHNA'S MAHABHARATAS: DEVOTIONAL RETELLINGS OF AN EPIC NARRATIVE. By Sohini Sarah Pillai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover $90.00. MERCHANTS OF VIRTUE: HINDUS, MUSLIMS, AND UNTOUCHABLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH ASIA. By Divya Cherian. Oakland: University of Californi…
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