Contents List of Maps ix List of Photographs xi Prologue and Acknowledgments xiii 1Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia 1 SHAIL MAYARAM SECTION I Cosmopolitanism and the State 2Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and Other Subjects 35 ENGIN F. ISIN 3Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism 54 EMILY T.YEH 4Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionism 86 AIHWA ONG SECTION II Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied 5Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi 101 YASMEEN ARIF 6 Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife Little India, Kuala Lumpur 131 YEOH SENG GUAN 7Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo 161 JOHN LIE SECTION III Cosmopolitan Microprocesses 8 Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost 179 ASEF BAYAT 9 Cosmopolitanism and the City: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara 202 CAROLINE HUMPHREY, MAGNUS MARSDEN, AND VERA SKVIRSKAJA Contributors 233 Index 237