Sarkar, Tanika, 1949-

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.

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Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Baṅkimacandra, 1838-1894. English. Ānandamaṭha.


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.

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