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100			_aGupta, Charu
245		0	_aHindi hindu histories : _bCaste, ayurveda, travel, and communism in early twentieth century India
260			_aNew Delhi : _bPermanent Black, _c2024.
300			_axxiii, 380p.
365			_aINR _b1195
490			_aHedgehog and fox history and politics
520			_aWhat 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.
650			_aHinduism -- History -- 20th century -- India _9812938
650			_aHindus -- Biography -- India _9812939
650			_aHistory / Asia / South / India _9811944
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