diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/opf.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/opf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..416fefd400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/opf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
+from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
+                        print_function)
+
+__license__ = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2014, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
+
+from lxml import etree
+
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.container import OPF_NAMESPACES
+from calibre.utils.localization import canonicalize_lang
+
+def get_book_language(container):
+    for lang in container.opf_xpath('//dc:language'):
+        raw = lang.text
+        if raw:
+            code = canonicalize_lang(raw.split(',')[0].strip())
+            if code:
+                return code
+
+def set_guide_item(container, item_type, title, name, frag=None):
+    guides = container.opf_xpath('//opf:guide')
+    if not guides:
+        g = container.opf.makeelement('{%s}guide' % OPF_NAMESPACES['opf'], nsmap={'opf':OPF_NAMESPACES['opf']})
+        container.insert_into_xml(container.opf, g)
+        guides = [g]
+    ref_tag = '{%s}reference' % OPF_NAMESPACES['opf']
+    href = container.name_to_href(name, container.opf_name)
+    if frag:
+        href += '#' + frag
+
+    for guide in guides:
+        matches = []
+        for child in guide.iterchildren(etree.Element):
+            if child.tag == ref_tag and child.get('type', '').lower() == item_type.lower():
+                matches.append(child)
+        if not matches:
+            r = guide.makeelement(ref_tag, type=item_type, nsmap={'opf':OPF_NAMESPACES['opf']})
+            container.insert_into_xml(guide, r)
+            matches.append(r)
+        for m in matches:
+            m.set('title', title), m.set('href', href), m.set('type', item_type)
+    container.dirty(container.opf_name)
+
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
index ac87b7ae66..fe9766ff34 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/toc.py
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ from calibre import __version__
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import XPath, uuid_id, xml2text, NCX, NCX_NS, XML, XHTML, XHTML_NS, serialize
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.errors import MalformedMarkup
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.utils import guess_type
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.opf import set_guide_item, get_book_language
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.pretty import pretty_html_tree
+from calibre.translations.dynamic import translate
 from calibre.utils.localization import get_lang, canonicalize_lang, lang_as_iso639_1
 
 ns = etree.FunctionNamespace('calibre_xpath_extensions')
@@ -481,7 +483,12 @@ def find_inline_toc(container):
             return name
 
 def create_inline_toc(container, title=None):
-    title = title or _('Table of Contents')
+    lang = get_book_language(container)
+    default_title = 'Table of Contents'
+    if lang:
+        lang = lang_as_iso639_1(lang) or lang
+        default_title = translate(lang, default_title)
+    title = title or default_title
     toc = get_toc(container)
     if len(toc) == 0:
         return None
@@ -529,6 +536,8 @@ def create_inline_toc(container, title=None):
     name = toc_name
     for child in toc:
         process_node(html[1][1], child)
+    if lang:
+        html.set('lang', lang)
     pretty_html_tree(container, html)
     raw = serialize(html, 'text/html')
     if name is None:
@@ -540,5 +549,6 @@ def create_inline_toc(container, title=None):
     else:
         with container.open(name, 'wb') as f:
             f.write(raw)
+    set_guide_item(container, 'toc', title, name, frag='calibre_generated_inline_toc')
     return name