Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion, and cultural nationalism /
Hindu wife, Hindu nation
Tanika Sarkar.
- 1st ed.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.
- viii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation -- Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal -- 2. Talking About Scandals -- Religion, Law and Love in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal -- 3. A Book of Her Own, A Life of Her Own -- The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Century Woman -- 4. Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of -- a Political Agenda -- 5. Imagining Hindu Rashtra -- The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankimchandra's Writings -- 6. Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism -- Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife 7. A Pre-History of Rights? The Age of Consent -- Debates in Colonial Bengal -- 8. Nationalist Iconography -- The Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century -- Bengali Literature -- 9. Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology -- The Voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.
Hindu women--Social conditions. Hindu women--Government policy--India. Women in popular culture--India. Women in Hinduism--India. Hinduism and politics--India.
India--Politics and government. India--Religious life and customs.