At home in the world : feminist agency in the late-nineteenth century social reform novel -- Desire, death, and the discourse of sati : Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnakanter Uil and Rabindranath Tagore's Chokher Bali -- Erotic worship and the discourse of rights : spiritual feminism in Saratchandra Chatterjee's fiction -- On purdah and poetry : social reform and the status of Urdu poetry in Nazir Ahmad and Hali's fiction -- Poetry, piety and performance : the politics of modesty in M.H. Ruswa's Umrao jaan ada and Junun-e-intezaar -- Towards a feminist modernity : the religious-erotic politics of the modernesque novel
