TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reviewed by Aparna Vaidik 
TI  - Interrogating the vernacular 
CY  - Biblio: A Review of Books  
N2  - 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
BR  - AR138835
ER  -