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  1. Bhagwati Prasad Singh,
    Kalyan Path
    :
    Nirmata Aur Rahi
    , Radha Madhav Seva Sansthan, Gorakhpur, 1980, p. 269.
  2. Poddar Papers.
  3. Klaus K. Klostermaier,
    A Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism
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  4. A.L. Basham,
    The Wonder That Was India
    , Rupa Paperback, New Delhi, 1981, p. 113.
  5. Klostermaier, 1998, p. 174.
  6. Basham, 1981, p. 113.
  7. Ritu Sinha, ‘Educating the Hindu Child Citizen: Pedagogy of the Gita Press’, paper presented at a workshop on Education, Jammu University, November 2012.
  8. Poddar Papers.
  9. Singh, 1980, p. 268.
  10. See Paul Brunton,
    A Search in Secret India
    , Samuel Weiser Inc., Maine (USA), 1934.
  11. C.D. Deshmukh to Poddar, 31 May 1941. Poddar Papers.
  12. Madhav Ashish to Poddar, undated but talks of
    Manavta Ank
    of 1959. Poddar Papers.
  13. Letter from Bharat Dharma Mahamandal to Poddar, 22 October 1934. Poddar Papers.
  14. Shyam Swarup Sharma to Ghanshyam Das Jalan, publisher, Gita Press, 2 November 1968. Poddar Papers.
  15. Poddar to Vishwanath Malhotra, 22 November 1968. Poddar Papers.
  16. Kalya
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    , December 1968, pp. 1374–75.
  17. Prabhupada to Satsvarupa, 31 December 1968. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  18. Prabhupada to Satsvarupa, 23 January 1968. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013
  19. Prabhupada to Brahmananda, 5 February 1969. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  20. Prabhupada to Radhe Shyam Banka, 13 March 1970; Prabhupada to disciple Gargamuni, 16 February 1971. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  21. Prabhupada to Poddar, 4 and 5 February 1970. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  22. Prabhupada to Poddar, 4 March 1970.
    www.prabhupadabooks.com.
    Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  23. Prabhupada to Poddar, 23 May 1970.
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    Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  24. Prabhupada to N.C. Chatterjee, 9 July 1970. www.prabhupada books.com. Accessed on 1 October 2013.
  25. Singh, 1980, p. 117. Also part of Poddar Papers.
  26. Ibid., pp. 134–35.
  27. ‘
    Shri Krishna Aur Mahatmaji Ka Anashakti Yoga
    ’ (Krishna and Mahatma’s
    Anashakti Yoga
    ),
    Saraswati
    , November 1931, pp. 569– 70.
  28. Pyarelal’s letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, 8 January 1945. Poddar Papers.
  29. G.D. Birla to Poddar, 31 May 1958. Poddar Papers.
  30. Poddar to Jugal Kishore Birla, 9 Shravan Krishna, Samvat 2006 (1949). Poddar Papers.
  31. Interview of Hanuman Prasad Poddar. Poddar Papers.
  32. Singh, 1980, p. 117. Also part of Poddar Papers.
  33. Claim made in the advertisement of
    Bharata Dharma
    in
    Theosophist
    Magazine
    , October–December 1927.
  34. Prefatory note for the book on the Bible by Verrier Elwin sent by C. Rajagopalachari to Poddar. Poddar Papers.
  35. C. Rajagopalachari to Poddar, 14 August 1935. Poddar Papers.
  36. C. Rajagopalachari to Poddar, 28 June 1952. Poddar Papers.
  37. Radhakrishnan to Chimmanlal Gosvami, 17 June 1958. Poddar Papers.
  38. K.M. Munshi to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, 17 April 1959. Poddar Papers.
  39. Munshi to Poddar, 10 July 1957. Poddar Papers.
  40. Poddar to Sampurnanand, 13 Shravan Shukla, Samvat 2006 (1949). Poddar Papers.
  41. Poddar to Sampurnanand, Bhadra Amavasya, Samvat 2006 (1949). Poddar Papers.
  42. Sampurnanand to Poddar, Bhadra Shukla, Samvat 1994 (1937). Poddar Papers.
  43. Sampurnanand to Poddar, 22 October 1937. Poddar Papers.
  44. Poddar to Sampurnanand, 21 October 1957. Poddar Papers.
  45. Copy of Poddar’s editorial comment. Poddar Papers.
  46. Katju to Poddar, 4 August 1949. Poddar Papers.
  47. Katju to Poddar, 6 October 1952. Poddar Papers.
  48. Purshottamdas Thakurdas Papers, NMML, F No. 107(I)/1931 and File No. 81/III-IV/1929.
  49. Thakurdas to Poddar, 4 May 1942. Poddar Papers.
  50. Thakurdas’s letter through secretary, 7 August 1945. Poddar Papers.
  51. Thakurdas to Poddar, 27 December 1948. Thakurdas Papers, NMML, File No. F 358.
  52. Bhalchand Modi,
    Desh Ke Itihas Mein Marwari Jati Ka Sthan
    , published by Raghunath Prasad Singhania, Calcutta, 1939, p. 504; Philip Lutgendorf,
    The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas
    o
    f Tulsidas
    , University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991. http:// ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft796nb4pk/. Accessed on 14 February 2012.
  53. Das to Poddar, 2 December 1959. Poddar Papers.
  54. B.L. Chandgothia, general manager, Gita Press to Seth Govind Das, 16 July 1953. Govind Das Papers, NMML.
  55. Poddar to Jawaharlal Nehru, 10 June 1949; Prime Minister’s Secretariat to
    Kalyan
    editor, June 1949. Poddar Papers.
  56. Pant’s letter to Poddar, 19 January 1959. Poddar Papers.
  57. Copy of Poddar’s letter to G.B. Pant, undated. Poddar Papers. Also cited in Singh, 1980, pp. 479–80.
  58. Valmiki Chaudhury to Poddar, 7 July 1952. Poddar Papers.
  59. Oral History Transcript of interview with Gyanwati Darbar, private secretary to Rajendra Prasad, by Dr Hari Dev Sharma, 14 March 1969. NMML.
  60. Gyanwati Darbar to editor,
    Mahabharata
    , 27 July 1956. Poddar Papers.
  61. Librarian, Delhi University to editor,
    Kalyan
    , 17 October 1956. Poddar Papers.
  62. N. Krishnaswamy to Poddar, 19 January 1949. Poddar Papers.
  63. Sri Prakash to Poddar, 12 May 1957; Shriman Narayan to Poddar, 7 June 1958. Poddar Papers.
  64. Srikrishna Saral,
    Indian Revolutionaries: A Comprehensive Study
    ,
    1757
    –
    1961
    , Vol. 2, Ocean Books, New Delhi, 1999.
  65. Cited in Charu Gupta,
    Sexuality, Obscenity and Community
    , Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2001, p. 230.
  66. Chandkaran Sharda, ‘
    Hindu Sanskriti Kya Hai
    ’ (What is Hindu Culture?),
    Kalyan
    ,
    Hindu Sanskriti Ank
    , January 1950, pp. 201–03.
  67. Golwalkar to Poddar, 25 December 1949,
    Sri Guruji Samagra
    , Vol. 7 (Correspondence), Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, pp. 192–93.
  68. Golwalkar to Poddar, 5 July 1955, ibid., pp. 310–11.
  69. Thate to Poddar, February 1956, Poddar Papers.
  70. Golwalkar to Poddar, 25 February 1956,
    Sri Guruji Samagra
    , Vol. 7, pp. 211–12.
  71. Craig Baxter,
    Jana Sangh: A Biography of an Indian Political Party
    , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1971, pp. 62–63.
  72. Mookerji to Poddar, 25 June 1952. Poddar Papers.
  73. N.C. Chatterjee to Poddar, 29 June 1952. Poddar Papers.
  74. Christophe Jaffrelot,
    The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India
    , Viking, New Delhi, 1996, p. 94 (fn).
  75. N.B. Khare, Oral History Transcript, NMML, Accession No. 301.
  76. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 94.
  77. Raghuvira to Poddar, 1 May 1958. Poddar Papers.
  78. Raghuvira to Poddar, 8 January 1958. Poddar Papers.
  79. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 103.
  80. http://www.swamisridindayaluji.in/karpatri.php.
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  81. H.L. Erdman,
    The Swatantra Party and Indian Conservatism
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  82. B.D. Graham,
    Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origin and
    Developmen
    t of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
    , Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, p. 95.
  83. Ibid., p. 149.
  84. Jaffrelot, 1996, p. 199.
  85. Ibid.
  86. Kaka Kalelkar’s letter and Poddar’s reply,
    Kalyan
    , January 1969, p. 691.
  87. Kak
    a Kalelkar Granthavali
    , Vol. 11, Gandhi Hindustani Sahitya Sabha, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 258–59.
  88. Sumit Sarkar,
    Swadeshi Movement in Bengal
    , Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2010, p. 143.
  89. Ibid., p. 423.
  90. Read Sabyasachi Bhattacharya’s introduction in Radha Kumud Mookerji,
    The Fundamental Unity of India
    , Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chronicle Books, New Delhi, 2008.
  91. Ram Lal Wadhwa,
    Hindu Mahasabha (1928–1947)
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  92. Mookerji to Poddar, 14 October 1949. Poddar Papers.
  93. Mookerji to Poddar, 3 July 1954. Poddar Papers.
  94. Ram Moorti Loomba in G.R. Madan (ed.),
    Radha Kamal Mukerjee: An
    Eminen
    t Scholar, Saint and Social Worker
    , Radha Publications, New Delhi, 2008, p. 3.
  95. Ramachandra Guha, ‘The Ones Who Stayed Behind’,
    Economic &
    Politica
    l Weekly
    , 22 March 2003.
  96. Loomba in Madan (ed.), 2008, p. 3.
  97. Radha Kamal Mukerjee to Poddar, 15 December (year not mentioned). Poddar Papers.
  98. S.N. Sen to Poddar, 4 November 1938. Poddar Papers.
  99. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,
    Caste, Culture & Hegemony: Social Dominance in
    Colonia
    l Bengal
    , Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2004.
  100. Sen to Poddar, 18 July 1945. Poddar Papers.
  101. Amartya Sen, Foreword to Kshitimohan Sen,
    Hinduism
    , Penguin India, New Delhi, 2005.
  102. Ibid.
  103. Anil K. Chanda, Tagore’s secretary, to Poddar, 29 October 1936. Poddar Papers.
  104. Altekar to Poddar, 8 February 1934. Poddar Papers.
  105. Poddar to Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, 1 August 1949. Poddar Papers.
  106. Ganganath Jha to Poddar, 1 October 1938. Poddar Papers.
  107. See Hugh Tinker,
    The Ordeal of Love: C.F. Andrews and India
    , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1979.
  108. Copy of letter from Andrews to Poddar, 18 July 1923. Poddar Papers.
  109. Arundale to Poddar, 29 November 1935. Poddar Papers.
  110. Gandhi’s Foreword to Sophia Wadia,
    Brotherhood of Religions
    , International Book House, Bombay, 1939.
  111. Wadia to Baba Raghav Das, 30 November 1934. Poddar Papers.
  112. http://roerich.org/nr.html?mid=bio_rus.
    Accessed on 5 October 2012.
  113. Roerich’s secretary to Poddar, 29 March 1932. Poddar Papers.
  114. Roerich to Poddar, 11 March 1932. Poddar Papers.
  115. For biographical sketch see Sunil Raman,
    C.Y. Chintamani: The
    Libera
    l Editor Politician
    , Rupa Charitavali Series, New Delhi, 2002; Gyanesh Kudaisya,
    Region, Nation,
    ‘
    Heartland
    ’
    : Uttar Pradesh in India’s Body
    Politi
    c
    , Sage, New Delhi, 2006.
  116. Nico Slate,
    Colored Cosmopolitanism
    , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2012, p. 75.
  117. Tikekar to Poddar, 16 February 1935. Poddar Papers.
  118. Tikekar to Poddar, 21 March 1935. Poddar Papers.
  119. Tikekar to Poddar, 8 April 1935. Poddar Papers.
  120. Singh, 1980, pp. 144–45.
  121. Harish Trivedi, ‘Progress of Hindi, Part 2’, in Sheldon Pollock (ed.),
    Literary Cultures in History: Reconstruction from South Asia
    , University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 976.
  122. Allison Busch, ‘An Early Moment in the Development of Hindi Literary Theory by Mishrabandhu’, in Shobna Nijhawan (ed.),
    Nationalis
    m in the Vernacular
    , Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2010, p. 343.
  123. Mishrabandhuvinod
    , Vol. 1, 4th edition, Ganga Pustakmala Karyalaya, Lucknow, 1934, p. 77.
  124. Preface to the second edition of
    Mishrabandhuvinod
    reproduced in the fourth edition of 1934.
  125. Mishrabandhuvino
    d
    , Vol. IV, 1934, p. 393.
  126. See Francesca Orsini,
    The Hindi Public Sphere, 1920-40: Language and
    Literature in the Age of Nationalism
    , 2002, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 401–02.
  127. Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay ‘Harioudh’,
    Hindi Bhasha Aur Uske Sahitya Ka
    Vikas
    , Patna University, 1934, printed by Babu Manik Lal, United Press Limited, Bhagalpur, pp. 544–45, 703, 719.
  128. 128. Singh, 1980, p. 273.
  129. Gambhirchand Dujari,
    Shri Bhaiji: Ek Alaukik Vibhuti
    , Gita Vatika Prakashan, Gorakhpur, 2000, pp. 307–08.
  130. Ruth Vanita,
    Love’s Rite: Same Sex Marriage in India and the West
    , Palgrave, New York, 2005, p. 162.
  131. Karmendu Shishir (ed.),
    Navjagrankalin Patrakarita Aur Matwala
    , Vol. I, Anamika Prakashan, New Delhi, 2012, p. 38.
  132. Chaturvedi to Ugra, undated, marked personal in Narayan Dutt (ed.),
    Banarsida
    s Chaturvedi Ke Chuninda Patra
    , Vol. I, IGNCA and Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006, p. 237.
  133. Another undated letter to Ugra, ibid.
  134. Copy of Poddar’s letter to Chaturvedi, 1931. Poddar Papers.
  135. Chaturvedi to Poddar, 11 August 1941. Poddar Papers.
  136. Chaturvedi to Poddar, May 1958. Poddar Papers.
  137. Shamshur Rahman Faruqi, ‘A Long History of Urdu Literary Culture, Part I,’ in Pollock (ed.), 2003, p. 819.
  138. Dujari, 2000, p. 307.
  139. Trivedi, 2003, p. 990
  140. This and the following quotes are from Karine Schomer,
    Mahadevi
    Varm
    a and the Chhayavad Age of Modern Hindi Poetry
    , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 26, 95–96, 101.
  141. Trivedi, 2003, p. 995.
  142. Ibid., p. 994.
  143. This and the following information is from Shishir (ed.), 2012, pp. 24, 31, 39; and Schomer, 1998, p. 103.
  144. Dujari, 2000, p. 307.
  145. Poddar to Pant, date not clear. Poddar Papers.
  146. Schomer, 1998, p. 21.
  147. Ibid., pp. 95–96.
  148. Trivedi, 2003, p. 988.
  149. Sudhir Chandra,
    Hindu, Hindutva, Hindustan
    , Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 134–35.
  150. Shishir (ed.), 2012, Vol. II, p. 116.
  151. Poddar to Gupt, 1949. Poddar Papers.
  152. Gupt to Poddar, 1945. Poddar Papers.
  153. Orsini, 2002, pp. 424–25.
  154. Phrase attributed to Nirala in Shishir, 2012, Vol. 1, p. 32.

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