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The nationalization of Hindu traditions

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2010 Permanent Black RanikhetDescription: xvii, 490 pISBN:
  • 9788178243047
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.438409 D2N2
Summary: This book 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 uses the life and writings of Bharatendu Harischandra (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, as we experience it today, came to be formed.(http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=0&isbn=978-81-7824-304-7)
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 44-A / Slot 2473 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 891.438409 D2N2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 171581

This book 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 uses the life and writings of Bharatendu Harischandra (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, as we experience it today, came to be formed.(http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=0&isbn=978-81-7824-304-7)

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