{"product_id":"hindi-hindu-histories-charu-gupta-9798855800654","title":"Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charu Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855800654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Charu Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46907334787327,"sku":"9798855800654","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7763fc4-1619-403b-9438-79e813d105b3.jpg?v=1748773025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hindi-hindu-histories-charu-gupta-9798855800654","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}