Sangeeta Ray, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Certificate Program at the University of Maryland, is coeditor of Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies.

“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”-Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles "A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."-Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

Sangeeta Ray, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Certificate Program at the University of Maryland, is coeditor of Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies.

“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”-Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles "A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."-Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

Sangeeta Ray, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Certificate Program at the University of Maryland, is coeditor of Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies.

“En-Gendering India is a lucid and intelligent study of the play of gender and sexuality in Indian nationalism. Sangeeta Ray cautions against the perception that Hindu nationalism is no longer relevant in an era of globalization and migration, arguing that it has simply entered a more expansive phase. This is an important and timely book.”-Jennifer Sharpe, University of California, Los Angeles "A significant contribution to postcolonial and feminist studies. Ray’s scholarship is rigorous and persuasive, combining theoretical depth and erudition with original and nuanced textual analysis and interpretation."-Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee’s Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 2. Woman as “Suttee”: The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 3. Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore’s The Home and the World and Hosain’s Sultana’s Dream 4. New Woman, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Sidhwa’s Cracking India Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index