CONTENTS: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, A Note on the Date of Bengali Sources Glossary, Introduction, Politics of Gender in Bengal: Problems and Perspectives over a Century: 1. Evolving Ideas of Gender in Colonial Bengal, 1870–1905, 2. Love and Marriage in Bengal Issues and Ideologies, 3. Love and Law in Colonial Bengal Widow Remarriage, Age of Consent, and Debates on Dowry, 4. Representing Family, Village, and Nation Women’s Self-Writing in Bengal, 5. Nationalist Politics and Feminism Convergences and Departures, 6. New Challenges, Anxieties, and the Decline of the ‘Woman Question’, 7. The Perception of ‘Decline’ in Bhadralok Sensibilities and the Road to Communalism, 8. Gendered Remembrances of the Village Othering, Memorialising, and Seeking New Resolutions, Conclusion: For ‘Home’, ‘Family’, and ‘Nation’, References, Index.