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  title info:
    title: Hindi Hindu histories
    sub title: caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in early-twentieth-century India
  title info:
    title: Caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in early-twentieth-century India
  name:
    name part: Gupta, Charu
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First SUNY Press edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.
  table of contents: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Vernacular Freedoms and Life Narratives -- Malleable Circuits of the Vernacular -- Hindi and Hindu: Negotiating Language, Literature, and Religion -- Self-Writing, Life Histories, and Sexual Embodiments -- Utopian Desires of Freedom -- Trajectory of Chapters -- I: Santram Ba (1887-1988) -- 1 Reading Self, Resisting Caste, Reimagining Marriage -- Life History and Caste: Self and Collective Identities -- Familial and Social Roots: Caste Discrimination, the Arya Samaj, and Hindi -- A History of the JPTM and Anticaste Thought -- Transgressive Intimacies: Championing Intercaste Marriages -- 2 Cast(e)ing and Translating Sex: Vernacular Sexology from the Margins -- Vernacular Print Cultures and Sexology in Hindi -- Translating Marginality into Authority: Marie Stopes and the Sanskrit Sex Classics -- A Heterosexual Ethics: Conjugal Desires, Brahmacharya, and Birth Control -- II: Yashoda Devi (1890-1942) -- 3 Procreation and Pleasure: Women, Men, and Ayurveda -- Popular Health Literature, Biomedicine, and Ayurveda -- A Gendered Ayurvedic Authority on Domestic Health -- A Moral Sexologist: Reproduction, Intercourse, and Masturbation -- 4 Kitchen Pharmacy: Culinary Recipes and Home Remedies -- The Politics of Food and Health in Colonial UP -- A Robust World of Cookbooks and Home Remedies -- Food Recipes and Cookbooks -- Recipes for Home Remedies -- Menu for a Hindu Nation and the Ingredients of Gendered Embodiments -- The Educated Housewife as "Ghar ka Vaid" -- Food for Freedom: The Political Economy of Home Remedies -- III: Swami Satyadev Parivrajak (1879-1961) -- 5 Fantasy, Fitness, Fascism: Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel -- Travel Writing: A Passion for Hindi -- Admiring the West: Beauty, Pleasure, and Physicality -- A Dialogue between East and West, Slavery, and Freedom -- "Perfect" Bodies: Masculinity and the Idolisation of Hitler -- 6 Fa…
  note: Charu Gupta.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-358) and index.
  note: AAS: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, 2026
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Hindus
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Hinduism
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Hinduism and culture
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Hindouisme
    geographic: Inde
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Hindouisme et culture
    geographic: Inde
  classification: BL1170 .G86 2024
  classification: 294.5092/2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SUNY series in Hindu studies
  identifier: 9798855800661
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240611
    record change date: 20250522140932.6
    record identifier: in00005777638
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng