01117nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003800060245003400098260003200132300003600164520059200200773003200792906001700824942000700841952011100848  c533324d533324260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by Aparna Vaidik 960483  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    aBOOK REVIEW   cAR  00102ddc40709408494aIIPAbIIPAd2026-05-14h30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.20-20pAR138835r2026-05-14yAR