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100			_aDalmia, Vasudha
245			_aNationalization of hindu traditions : bharatendu harischandra and nineteenth-century Banaras
260			_bPermanent Black; _c2010 _aNew Delhi:
300			_axvii, 490 p. _c22 cm.
365			_aINR _b595.00
520			_a The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions 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 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. The issues which it examines include the formation of modern Hindi, the nature of social change with the impact of colonialism, the invention of ideas about holiness, and the creation of a new Hindi national consciousness. This work of cultural biography analyses the intricate links between politics, language, culture, religion and nationality that evolved in nineteenth-century north India under the impact of colonialism, but which even today, in the very different context of modern Indian politics, occupy centrestage.
650			_aCivilization
650			_aColonial India
650			_aHindustan
650			_aNational Language
650			_aReligion
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