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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 | |