TY - BOOK AU - Sarkar, Tanika, TI - Hindu wife, Hindu nation: community, religion, and cultural nati onalism SN - 0253340462 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 305.486945 23 PY - 2001/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Hindu women KW - Social conditions KW - Government policy KW - India KW - Women in popular culture KW - Women in Hinduism KW - Hinduism and politics KW - Politics and government KW - Religious life and customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 ER -