TY  - GEN
AU  - Hansen, Thomas Blom
TI  - Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa
SN  - 9781868145898
U1  - 305.8914106 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Johannesburg
PB  - Wits University Press
KW  -  
N1  - Contents 
List of Illustrations  ix
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
Introduction    1
Chapter 1. Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa   26
Chapter 2. Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy   59
Chapter 3. Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition   97
Chapter 4. Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech    142
Chapter 5. Movement, Sound, and Body in the Post-apartheid City    176
Chapter 6. The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires   200
Chapter 7 Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives    223
Chapter 8. The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief  261
Postscript. Melancholia in the Time of the ‘African Personality’    290
Notes  297
References   325
Index   345



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