Hindi Hindu Histories

Charu Gupta is Senior Professor of History at the University of Delhi. Her previous books include The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print and Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism.

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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 ofTravel
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 ofVernacular 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

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