Hindi Hindu histories : caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in early-twentieth-century India /
Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First SUNY Press edition. |
| Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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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 Fashioning a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Autobiography and Sectarian Freedom
- Anatomy of a Hindu Ascetic: Sexual Constraint and Masculine Virility
- Egoism and Eulogising Self
- Conceptualising an Exclusionary Freedom
- Segmented Freedom and Nationalism: Hindu Sangathan and Muslims
- Gandhi and Godse
- Vindicating Assassination
- IV: Satyabhakt (1896-1985)
- 7 A "Marginal" History of Vernacular Communism
- Historical Antecedents, Hindi and Communism
- The First Communist Conference and Satyabhakt's Marginalisation
- Idioms from Below and Communist Writings
- 8 Hindu Communism: Apocalypse and Utopian Ram Rajya
- An Eclectic Hindu Worldview
- Indian Traditions and Hinduism in Dialogue with Communism
- Apocalyptic Predictions and Future Prophecies
- Communism as a Utopian Ram Rajya
- Glossary