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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 260514