00908nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003100041245003400072260003200106300003600138520059200174773003200766260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Aparna Vaidik   aInterrogating the vernacular   aBiblio: A Review of Books    a30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.20-20  aHindi HINDU histories: Caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism in Early Twentieth Century INDIA by Charu Gupta Permanent Black Ashok university, Ranikhet 2024, 380pp. Rs. 1195(HB) ISBN 978-81-7824-681-1. 


As Gupta successfully demonstrates, for Yashoda Devi, Santram, Satydeve and Satyabhakt, the vernacular becomes a mode of negotiating the self and the world. Hindi was a vehicle to to subvert English and Sunskrit and through that caste, hierarchies. Vernacular, in the way Gupta uses its, serves as a capacious term that curries the weight of ideas of a society in a state of churu   aBiblio: A Review of Books