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“We Will Become Jijabai”: Historical Tales of Hindu Nationalist Women in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Kalyani Devaki Menon
Kalyani Devaki Menon
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(kmenon@depaul.edu) Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 103 - 126
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