{"product_id":"9798855800654-hindi-hindu-histories","title":"Hindi Hindu Histories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India\u003cbr\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2026\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize presented by the Association for Asian Studies \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. \u003cbr\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55793161765238,"sku":"9798855800654","price":35.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35064906.jpg?v=1751868438","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798855800654-hindi-hindu-histories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}