num_pages: 504
description: 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 playwrightjournalist 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.
language: English
title: The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Hari'shchandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras
publisher: Oxford University Press