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020			_a9781868145898
082			_a305.8914106 _bHAN
100			_aHansen, Thomas Blom _965542
245			_aMelancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa
260			_aJohannesburg _bWits University Press _c2013
300			_axvi,354p.
505			_aContents 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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890			_aAfrica
891			_aGratis
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