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Machine generated contents note: 1 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation -- Domes ticity 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 Ninet eenth-Century Woman -- 4 Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of -- a Po litical 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 Natio nalist Iconography -- The Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century -- Benga li Literature -- 9 Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology -- The Voi ce of Sadhvi Rithambhara.