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