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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.
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