00997nam a22001457a 4500 533324 533324 260514b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Reviewed by Aparna Vaidik 60483 Interrogating the vernacular Biblio: A Review of Books 30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.20-20 Hindi 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 Biblio: A Review of Books BOOK REVIEW AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408494 IIPA IIPA 2026-05-14 30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.20-20 AR138835 2026-05-14 AR