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