The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhāratendu Hariśhchandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras

By Vasudha Dalmia

This volume studies how a dominant strand of Hinduism in north India--the tradition which uses and misuses the slogan "Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan"--came into being in the late nineteenth century. It examines the life and writings of one major Hindi writer of the nineteenth century--the playwright, journalist, and polemicist Bharatendu Harishchandra (often called the "Father of Modern Hindi")--as its focal point for an analysis of some of the vital cultural processes through which modern north India came to be formed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195648560
• ISBN13: 9780195648560
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 5.5"