Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations

pp ix-x

Introduction: Women of Hindu Rashtra

pp 1-24

Part I - Changing Modalities of Hindu Nationalist Organizing

pp 25-26

1 - Right-Wing Women’s Mobilization: Notes from Colonial Western India

pp 27-51

2 - Track Changes: Women and the BJP from the 1990s to the 2010s

pp 52-74

Part II - Gendered Techniques of Mobilization: The Sangh and the Samiti

pp 75-76

3 - The Shakha, the Home and the World: Going beyond the Shakha and the RSS Family

pp 77-124

4 - Spinning the Saffron Yarn: Lessons of Ideal Girlhood in Hindu Nationalist Storytelling

pp 125-146

Part III - Cultivating Women’s Militancy: The Vishva Hindu Parishad

pp 147-148

5 - Sanskaras, Sexuality and Street Activism: VHP Women at Work

pp 149-168

6 - Conflicting Modes of Agency and Activism: Conversations with Hindutva Women

pp 169-192

Part IV - Refashioning Gender and Sexuality

pp 193-194

7 - Tracing the Rise of Ascetic Masculinity in India

pp 195-223

8 - Trans Contestations in an Era of Heightened Nationalism: The Saffronization of Transgender Identity

pp 224-262

Part V - Alternative Activist Responses to the Hindu Right

pp 263-264

9 - The Defence of Aacharaam, Femininity and Neo-Savarna Power in Kerala

pp 265-300

10 - The Revolution Will Come Wearing Bangles, Bindis and Hijabs: Women’s Activism for Inclusive Citizenship

pp 301-336

Glossary

pp 337-345

About the Contributors

pp 346-348

Index

pp 349-360