"This volume studies the ways in which Hindu nationalism is gendered today and juxtaposes the Sangh Parivar's shifting gender notions to the ways in which women's organisations construct their own modes of public and domestic politics. It addresses questions of the present state of organizational and ideological activities of women who belong to the many affiliates of the Sangh, and the extent to which rightwing women's organizations are autonomous and the nature of the influence that they bear upon Sangh policies. The volume provides perspectives from different disciplines and deploys diverse methods and theoretica frameworks. While some chapters provide fine-grained ethnographic analyses, others are historical, literary, and sociological. The chapters describe a range of Hindu nationalist organizations (including the RSS, Hindu Mahasabha, BJP and VHP affiliated groups, as well as those which are not affiliated to any of them) in different regions of the country"--

Dedication; Introduction: Women of Hindu Rashtra Tanika Sarkar; Part I. Changing Modalities of Hindu Nationalist Organizing; 1. Right Wing Women's Mobilization: Notes from Colonial Western India Namrata Ganneri; 2. Track Changes: Women and the BJP from the 1990s to the 2010s Rina Williams; Part II. Gendered Techniques of Mobilisation: The Sangh and The Samiti; 3. The Shakha, the Home and the World: Going Beyond the Shakha and the RSS Family Lalit Vachani; 4. Spinning the Saffron Yarn: Lessons of Ideal Girlhood in Hindu Nationalist Storytelling Aastha Tyagi; Part III. Cultivating Women's Militancy: The Vishva Hindu Parishad; 5. Sanskaras, Street-activism, and Sexuality: VHP Women at Work Manjari Katju; 6. Conflicting Modes of Agency and Activism: Conversations with Hindutva Women Anshu Saluja; Part IV. Refashioning Gender & Sexuality; 7. Tracing the Rise of Ascetic Masculinity in India Arpita Chakraborty; 8. Trans Contestations in an Era of Heightened Nationalism: The Saffronisation of Transgender Identity Jennifer Ung Loh; Part IV. Alternative Activist Responses to the Hindu Right; 9. The Defense of Aacharaam, Femininity, and Neo-savarna Power in Kerala J. Devika; 10. The Revolution Will Come Wearing Bangles, Bindis and Hijabs: Women's Activism for Inclusive Citizenship Amrita Basu and Amna Pathan; Abbreviations; Glossary.