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Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India
Author: Charu Gupta
Publisher: Permanent Black
Pages: 380
Price: ₹1,195
Although disparate subjects, caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism were typical to India, especially in the early 20th century. The author, a noted historian, examines two arenas of contestation and evolution — religio-cultural and linguistic, respectively — intertwining biographical narratives within the four issues, practices, trends and beliefs.
The book is a collection of four short intellectual biographies of people who covered virgin ground but faded into obscurity. The challenge was to resurrect these four with little in common other than divergent imaginations
