Hindu wife, Hindu nation: community, religion, and cultural nationalism

The Hindu wife and Hindu nation - domesticity and nationalism in colonial Bengal talking about scandals - religion, law and love in colonial Bengal imaging Hindu Rashtra - Hindu and Muslim in writings of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya nationalist iconography - image of Woman in 19th century Bengali literature rhetoric against the of Bankimchandra and impossiblity of a political agenda a prehistory of rights - Age of Consent Debate aspects of contemporary Hindutva theology - voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.