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Record Nr.

UNISA996248153903316

Autore

Sarkar Tanika <1949->

Titolo

Hindu wife, Hindu nation [[electronic resource] ] : community, religion, and cultural nationalism / / Tanika Sarkar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-253-34046-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 290 p. )

Disciplina

305.48/6/945

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation -- Domesticity 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 Nineteenth-Century Woman -- 4 Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of -- a Political 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 Nationalist Iconography -- The Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century -- Bengali Literature -- 9 Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology -- The Voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.