Interesting open source new book to read:
Merchants of Virtue : Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
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.
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.139/