{"product_id":"hindi-hindu-histories-caste-ayurveda-travel-and-communism-in-early-twentieth-century-india-9798855800654","title":"Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charu Gupta\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - South - India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? \u003ci\u003eHindi Hindu Histories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45848587600023,"sku":"9798855800654","price":3300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798855800654.webp?v=1769298211","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hindi-hindu-histories-caste-ayurveda-travel-and-communism-in-early-twentieth-century-india-9798855800654","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}