01867nam a22002177a 4500 20250724161904.0 250724b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788178246871 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No. 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj. : 121820 : 27/06/2025 Charu, Gupta. Hindi hindu histories : Caste, ayurveda, travel, and communism in early twentieth century India. / Charu Gupta. New Delhi : Permanent Black , 2024. xxiii,380p. : 28cm. 836.50 What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? Hindi Hindu Histories provides illuminating historical accounts of Hindu life through individual actors, autobiographical narratives, and genres in the Hindi print-public culture of early twentieth-century North India. It focuses on four fascinating figures: a successful woman doctor in the Indigenous medical regime, a globe-trotting Hindu ascetic who opposed Gandhi, an anticaste campaigner who spoke for sexual equality, and a Hindu communist who envisioned an egalitarian utopia in the world of labor. These public intellectuals harbored vernacular dreams of freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their vantage points of caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism. Opening up a vast and under-explored Hindi archive, this book presents a dynamic spectacle of a plural Hindi-Hindu universe of facets that coexisted, challenged each other, and comprised an idea of Hinduness far more inclusive than anything conceivable in the present moment. History Hedgehog and fox history and politics History and politics Gupta Charu BOOK 65667 65667 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-07-24 International Book Distributors 836.50 0 294.50 GUP 30964 2025-07-24 00:00:00 2025-07-24 BOOK