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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid | |
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| Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid | |
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| Melancholia of Freedom | |
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| Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Methods and Material | |
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| Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa | |
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| The Asiatic Question | |
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| The New Hygienic Indian | |
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| Census et Censura | |
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| The New Indian Social Body | |
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| Policing the Internal Frontier | |
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| Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing | |
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| Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy | |
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| From Kinship to Family | |
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| The New Indian Woman and the Family House | |
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| Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community | |
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| "Our Culture" as Embarrassment | |
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| Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees | |
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| Class and Charou Names | |
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| Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere | |
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| Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning | |
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| Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy | |
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| Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound | |
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| Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition | |
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| AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates | |
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| Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" | |
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| Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu | |
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| The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text | |
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| The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 | |
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| Racism's Two Bodies | |
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| Racial Practice, Indian-Style | |
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| Africans at Our Doorsteps | |
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| Somatic Anxieties | |
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| Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master | |
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| Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech | |
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| Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech | |
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| The House of Delhigoats | |
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| "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" | |
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| Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture | |
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| The Only Good Indian Is a Poor Indian: The ANC and the Indian Townships | |
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| "All the Way": On the Ways of the Tiger | |
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| From Tragedy to Comedy: Politics as a Form of Enjoyment | |
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| Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City | |
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| The Steel Cages of Modernity | |
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| Driving while Brown | |
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| (Auto)mobility in the Postapartheid City | |
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| Vehicular Vernacular: Visual and Sonic | |
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| Taxis, Charou-Style | |
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| Conclusion: "Indianness," African-Style | |
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| The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires | |
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| India as an Unwieldy Fetish | |
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| The Spiritual Homeland | |
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| Seeking Ancestral Roots | |
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| Finding Spiritual Truth | |
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| Catalysts of Modernity | |
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| Global Desi Dreamscapes: The Revival of Bollywood in South Africa | |
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| "What Does This Film Make of Me?" | |
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| Plot Summary | |
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| Who Are We Indians, After All? | |
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| Diaspora and the Unwieldy Fetish | |
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| Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives | |
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| Hinduism in Translation | |
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| Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification | |
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| A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships | |
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| The Call of Global Hinduism | |
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| Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past | |
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| Muslim Durban | |
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| Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim | |
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| "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?" | |
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| Da'wah in the Township | |
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| Reaching for the Universal | |
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| The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief | |
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| The Fragility of the Charou Soul | |
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| Signs of the Spirit | |
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| Reconfiguring Patriarchy and Gendered Surveillance | |
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| On Suits and Sermons | |
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| Looking like Kentucky... | |
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| Race, Gender, Body | |
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| Between Vessel and Substance: On the Exteriority of the Soul | |
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| Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |