Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval, and modern India

A controversy over a verse on the remarriage of Hindu women / Krishna Datta

Satī: the event and the ideology / Mandakranta Bose

Satyavatī: the matriarch of the Mahābhārata / Jayatri Ghosh

Usable women: the tales of Ambā and Mādhavī / Madhusraba Dasgupta

Anasūyā: a pativratā with panache / Vidyut Aklujkar

"The wildering gloom": women's place in Buddhist history / Chapla Verma

The goddess, women, and their rituals in Hinduism / Samjukta Gombrich Gupta

The goddess-woman equation in Śākta Tantras / Madhu Khanna

Women's wealth and worship: female patronage of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie Orr

The goddess-woman nexus in popular religious practice: the cult of Manasā / Manasi Dasgupta and Mandakranta Bose

Mīrābai in the academy and the politics of identity / Nancy Martin-Kershaw

Candrāvati Rāmāyaṇa: feminizing the Rāma-tale / Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Women saints in medieval Maharashtra / Eleanor Zelliot

Powers behind the throne: women in early Mughal politics / Mriducchanda Palit

For our native sisters: the Wesleyan Ladies Auxiliary in India / Sarika P. Bose

Flora Annie Steel: a voice for Indian women? / Karyn Huenemann

Exploring tradition and change among women in Marathi culture / Suma Chitnis

The construction of gender in history and religion: the Sikh case / Doris R. Jakobsh

Postcolonial identity as feminist fantasy: a study of Tamil women's short fiction on dowry / Matilda Gabrielpillai

Eroticism and the woman writer in Bengali culture / Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Women in radical movements in Bengal in the 1940s: the story of the Mahilā Ātmarakṣā Samiti (Women's Self-defense League) / Tripti Chaudhuri

The feminist movement in West Bengal: from the eighties to the nineties / Maitreyi Chatterjee

Contributors; Part I: Visions of Virtue; Part II: Women and Power; Part III: Emerging Voices; Index.