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 processes through which modern north India, as we experience it today, came to be formed.
The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras
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The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras
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3rd Reprint
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0195648560
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xii+490p., Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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