Divya Cherian is a historian of early modern and colonial South Asia, with interests in social, cultural, and religious history, gender and sexuality, ethics and law, and the local and the everyday. Her research focuses on western India, chiefly on the region that is today Rajasthan. Divya's book, The Pursuit of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century India (forthcoming with the University of California Press in 2022), investigates the effects on the state and society of the rise of merchants as an economic and political force in early modern South Asia. In doing so, the study places centrality on the role of law, ethics, and morality in the reshaping of both social identity and state form. Her research has received the support of the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Columbia University, and the Indian Council for Historical Research. Divya has begun work on a new project on gender, sexuality, and law in early modern South Asia. She is also developing a smaller project on animals and magic in the eighteenth century. Prior to joining Princeton, Divya spent a year as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in New Brunswick. She received a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, an M.Phil. and an M.A. in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a B.A. from the University of Delhi.
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