Hindi Hindu Histories

Name: Hindi Hindu Histories
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Hindi Hindu HistoriesCaste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India\nAuthor(s): Charu Gupta\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855800654, 979-8855800654\nSynopsis\nExplores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.\n\nWinner of the 2026 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize presented by the Association for Asian Studies \n. \nWhat 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 .