Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada and author of Warriors in Politics: Hinduism, Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India and Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism 1 Under the British Gaze: The Weak Bengali and the Simianized Celt 2 "Muscular Gael" and "Warrior Monk": Muscular Nationalism in Colonial India and Ireland 3 Irish and Indian Women in Muscular Nationalism (1914-1932) 4 Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism in the Postcolonial Context: Naxal and Armagh Women 5 Who Is a Proper Woman in the Nation? Femininity in the Roop Kanwar Immolation and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum Conclusion: Women and Muscular Nationalism: Some Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Muscular Nationalism is so gritty and smart. Sikata Banerjee reveals how in both Ireland and India a nationalized masculinism has relied on controlling ideas and practices of femininity. This is feminist analysis at its sharpest. - Cynthia Enloe,author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada and author of Warriors in Politics: Hinduism, Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India and Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism 1 Under the British Gaze: The Weak Bengali and the Simianized Celt 2 "Muscular Gael" and "Warrior Monk": Muscular Nationalism in Colonial India and Ireland 3 Irish and Indian Women in Muscular Nationalism (1914-1932) 4 Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism in the Postcolonial Context: Naxal and Armagh Women 5 Who Is a Proper Woman in the Nation? Femininity in the Roop Kanwar Immolation and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum Conclusion: Women and Muscular Nationalism: Some Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Muscular Nationalism is so gritty and smart. Sikata Banerjee reveals how in both Ireland and India a nationalized masculinism has relied on controlling ideas and practices of femininity. This is feminist analysis at its sharpest. - Cynthia Enloe,author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Sikata Banerjee is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada and author of Warriors in Politics: Hinduism, Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India and Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism 1 Under the British Gaze: The Weak Bengali and the Simianized Celt 2 "Muscular Gael" and "Warrior Monk": Muscular Nationalism in Colonial India and Ireland 3 Irish and Indian Women in Muscular Nationalism (1914-1932) 4 Politicized Femininity and Muscular Nationalism in the Postcolonial Context: Naxal and Armagh Women 5 Who Is a Proper Woman in the Nation? Femininity in the Roop Kanwar Immolation and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum Conclusion: Women and Muscular Nationalism: Some Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Muscular Nationalism is so gritty and smart. Sikata Banerjee reveals how in both Ireland and India a nationalized masculinism has relied on controlling ideas and practices of femininity. This is feminist analysis at its sharpest. - Cynthia Enloe,author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War