Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion and cultural nationalism / by Tanika Sarkar

Includes appendix.

Hindu wife Hindu nation : domesticity and nationalism in 19th century Bengal -- Talking about scandals : religion, law and love in late 19th century Bengal -- A book of her own, a life of her own : the autobiography of a 19th century woman -- Bankimchandra and the impossibility of a political agenda -- Imagining Hindu Rashtra : the Hindu and the Muslim in Bankimchandra's writings -- Conjugality and Hindu nationalism : resisting colonial reason and the death of a child-wife -- A pre-history of rights- the age of consent debates in colonial Bengal -- Nationalist iconography : the image of women in 19th century Bengali literature -- Aspects of contemporary Hindutva theology : the voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara