Sarkar explores these queries through a vast range of historical, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts spanning a little over a century of our modern past. Composed of eight chapters, she deploys a resolutely feminist analytical lens —only appropriate for the foremost feminist historian of our times— hence recurring themes include women’s participation in the Hindu nationalist movement, the gender-construction of Hindutva itself, affection, historicity, and perhaps, above all, the gendered ideology of that nationalist formation. This marks an important intervention in the slowly growing literature on Hindu nationalism, for indeed, as Sarkar herself has taught us in previous works, it is on and through the woman’s body and subjectivity that nationalist programmes have been inscribed. The absolutely necessity of a feminist interpretation of Hindutva is driven home with emphasis — especially due to the traditional emphasis on the masculinism, if I may be permitted to coin a term, of Hindu nationalism in both scholarship and practice.