1st Edition
Enchantments of Modernity Empire, Nation, Globalization
Foreword by Veena Das
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Modernity and its Enchantments: An Introduction
Saurabh Dube
Effects: Colony and Nation
2. North Atlantic Universals: Analytical Fictions, 1492–1945
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
3. Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference
Walter D. Mignolo
4. The Space of Empire and the Territory of Nations
Uday S. Mehta
5. Sanitizing Modernity: Imperial Hygiene, Obscenity, and Moral Regulation in Colonial India
Deana Heath
6. Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity
Saurabh Dube
7. The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics
of a Hindi Responsibility
Milind Wakankar
8. Gandhi’s Politics: Liberalism and the Question of the Ashram
Ajay Skaria
9. Illiberal Islam
Faisal Devji
10. Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Affects: The Global and the Vernacular
11. Affect: What is it Good for?
William Mazzarella
12. The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers Towards a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Craig Calhoun
13. The Absent Presence: Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism
Michael Herzfeld
14. The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan
Naveeda Khan
15. Mental Illness and the Urban Poor: Psychiatric Institutions and the Singularity of Lives
Veena Das (with assistance from Rajan Bhandari and Simi Bajaj)
16. The Time of Slavery
Saidiya V. Hartman
17. Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
18. The Beautiful Expanding Future of Poverty: Popular Economics as Psychological Defence
Ashis Nandy
Biography
Saurabh Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.
