Hindi Hindu histories : caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in early-twentieth-century India / Charu Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gupta, Charu, author.

Series:

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindus--India--Biography.

Hindus.

Hinduism--India--History--20th century.

Hinduism.

Hinduism and culture--India.

Hinduism and culture.

India--Intellectual life--20th century.

India.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First SUNY Press edition.

Other Title:

Caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in early-twentieth-century India

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2024]

Summary:

Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-358) and index.

ISBN:

9798855800661

OCLC:

1437988948