Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion and cultural nationalism
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Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion and cultural nationalism
Hurst & Company, 2001
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This text discusses the Hindu ideas and traditions that have shaped dominant conceptions of Indian women and the nation as a whole. It examines how these traditions are being subverted or transformed by fundamentalist forms of Hinduism. The concepts of Indian "womanhood", "domesticity", "wifeliness", "mothering", and India as a Hindu nation are examined through the literary and social traditions, popular culture and rhetoric, which have shaped the reality of modern India. This book is a critique of many of the dominating concepts by which some Indians live today.
Table of Contents
- The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation - domesticity and nationalism in colonial Bengal
- talking about scandals - religion, law and love in colonial Bengal
- imaging Hindu Rashtra - the Hindu and the Muslim in the writings of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya
- nationalist iconography - the image of "Woman" in 19th century Bengali literature
- rhetoric against "the Age of Consent"
- Bankimchandra and the impossiblity of a political agenda
- a prehistory of rights - the "Age of Consent Debate"
- aspects of contemporary Hindutva theology - the voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.
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