This book studies how a dominant strand of Hinduism in north India – the tradition which uses and misuses the slogan ‘Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan’ – came into being in the late nineteenth century. It examines the life and writings of a major Hindi writer of the nineteenth century – the playwright, journalist, and polemicist Bharatendu Harischandra (often called the Father of Modern Hindi) – as its focal point for an analysis of some of the vital cultural ...
