Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER ONE Gender and Nation: Woman Warriors in Chatterjee's Devi Chaudhurani and Anandamath 23
6. CHAPTER TWO Woman as "Suttee": The Construction of India in Three Victorian Narratives 51
7. CHAPTER THREE Woman as Nation and a Nation of Women: Tagore's The Home and the World and Hossain's Sultana's Dream 90
8. CHAPTER FOUR New Women, New Nations: Writing the Partition in Desai's Clear Light ofDay and Sidhwa's Cracking India 126
9. Epilogue 148
10. Notes 157
11. Works Cited 186
12. Index 195