Hindu wife, Hindu nation, community, religion, and cultural nationalism
By: Tanika Sarkar.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Chatterji, Bankim Chandra, 1838-1894.; 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.
Other titles: Hindu wife, Hindu nation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation; title: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; title: 2 Talking About Scandals; title: Religion, Law and Love in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal; title: 3 A Book of Her Own, A Life of Her Own; title: The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Century Woman; title: 4 Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of; title: a Political Agenda; title: 5 Imagining Hindu Rashtra; title: The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankimchandra's Writings; title: 6 Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism; title: Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife 7 A Pre-History of Rights? The Age of Consent; title: Debates in Colonial Bengal; title: 8 Nationalist Iconography; title: The Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century; title: Bengali Literature; title: 9 Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology; title: The Voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.