About the Book: The Hindi Canon: Intellectuals, Processes, Criticism
This book was first published in Hindi under the title Hindi Alochana mein
Canon-Nirman ki Prakriya in 2015. It was acclaimed as one of the first critical
studies of the processes of canonization (pratimanikaran) in Hindi. Indeed, the
word `canon was used by the author to ask a new set of questions about the
development of languages of criticism in Hindi, moving beyond the available
vocabulary of man (worth), mulya (value), pratiman (epitome), and manak
(evaluation). In the process, the theological roots of canon formation were
shown to be foundational in the making of the Hindi critical