For Home, Family & Nation - Women & the Politics of Gender in Bengal, 1870–1947

The lives of the bhadramahila (generally, upper-caste educated women) and the rise of the ‘New Woman’ in late-colonial Bengal has attracted significant critical interest. However, For Home, Family, and Nation, is the first full-length study to focus on the evolution of gender issues in nationalist politics in Bengal and study the complex relationship between feminism, nationalism, and communalism, over a period of eight decades, from the 1870s onwards. Thisbook examines the flexibility of this strand of nationalist thought, which constantly adjusted to new methods of selection and appropriation.