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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Indian Religions" and Western Thought | |
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| Disorders of Identity and the Memory of Politics | |
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| Theology as Cultural Translation | |
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| Postcoloniality, Theory, and the Afterlives of Religion | |
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| "Indian Religions" and Western Thought | |
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| Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity in Colonial North India | |
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| The "Failure of Secular Creeds" in Politics and Theory | |
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| Religion and Nationalism in Colonial North India | |
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| "Dialogue" and the Emergence of public Spheres in Britain and India | |
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| The Colonial Idiom: The Anglicist Reversal of the "Hindoo" Stereotype | |
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| Indian Public Responses to the Colonial Idiom | |
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| Rethinking the "Interactionist" Model of Colonial Agency | |
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| Modes of Address: English and the Purification of Native Speech | |
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| Fabrication of the "Mother Tongue(s)" | |
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| The English Orthopaideia: "Generalized Translation" and the Transition to the Global Fiduciary | |
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| Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West | |
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| The Orthodoxy of Secular Anti-Imperialist Critique | |
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| Cultural Nationalism and the "Intellectual Rekindling of Christianity" | |
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| Monogenesis: Race, Reason, and Monotheism in Orientalism<sup>1</sup> | |
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| Indology and the Pantheist Controversy: Herder, Schlegel, and Schelling | |
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| Naming the Origin: Hegel's Critique of Deism and Natural Religion | |
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| Of Passage and Installation: The Question of Spirit | |
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| Linking Aufhebung to the Ontological Proof for God's Existence | |
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| Hegel's Schema as a Diagram for the Production of History | |
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| Influences of Hegel's Schema | |
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| Theosophy, Indology, and the Religious Reform Movements | |
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| Theology as Cultural Translation | |
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| Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making | |
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| Early Colonial Accounts of Sikhs and Sikhism | |
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| Demacrating a Regime of Translation: Trumpp's "Odium Theologicum" | |
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| Pincott and the Politics of Classification | |
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| Manufacturing Native Informancy: Macauliffe's "Dialogue" with the Sikh Reformists | |
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| Reinstalling Sikhism within the History of Religions | |
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| Reconstituting Gurmat as "Sikh Theology" | |
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| Nation and the Time of Novitas: Teja Singh's The Growth of Responsibility in Sikhism | |
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| Transcedence and the Over-coming of Lack | |
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| Refiguring Time as Eternity: The Eclipse of Nonduality in the Vernacular Commentaries on Sikh Scripture | |
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| From the Ontological Proof to the Formulation of Sikhism as a "World Religion" | |
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| Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity | |
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| Wars of Scholarship | |
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| How Sacred Origins Construct a "Critical" History of the Sikh Religion | |
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| The Sant Ideal: nirgu&nbdot; bhakti | |
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| What Is Modern Sikh Theology? | |
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| Guru, Śabda, Nam: Language and the Location of Author(ity) | |
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| Reading the "Divine Self-Expression" | |
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| Voice, Language, Subjectivity: A Theoretical Digression | |
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| Translation and the Normalization of "Religious" Subjectivity | |
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| Sui Generis Religion and the Question of Pluralism | |
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| Translating the Theory of Religion Into the Liberal Imaginary | |
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| Violence and the Mediatization of the Sikhs, 1984 to 9/II | |
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| Postcolonial Exits | |
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| Ideologies of Sacred Sound | |
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| Language and the Crises of Humanism | |
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| The Phonemic Principle in Hermeneutics and Ethnology | |
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| Orality, Texts, and the Nationalist Imaginary | |
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| Ethnoscience and the Problem of Translation: The Case of Sikh Scripture | |
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| Sounding the Vedic Economy | |
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| Deontologizing the Word (śabda): Metaphysics of "Eternal Sanskrit" and the Production of a Sonic Mimetology | |
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| Sonic Hermeneutics as an Ethnology of Sikhism | |
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| Revisiting the Site of Lack | |
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| Reclaiming the Nondual Ground of the Guru Granth | |
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| The Word as Guru: Toward a Materialist Sketch of N&abar;nak's Teachings | |
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| Decolonizing Postsecular Theory | |
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| The Cultural Bias of Theory | |
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| Reassessing the Narratives of Emancipation | |
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| Europe's Secret Responsibility and Fundamental Fear | |
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| Postcolonial Assessments | |
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| Historical Difference in Theory | |
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| The Global Fiduciary | |
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| "What If Religio Remained Untranslatable?": Geopolitics and Theory | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary of Indic Terms | |
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| Index | |