Modern Makeovers examines the conditions, limitations, and possibilities of modernity in contemporary contexts of politics, culture, and the arts in the South Asian context.

• Preface


• 1: Modern Makeovers: An Introduction (Saurabh Dube)


• SECTION I: IMPERIAL IMPLICATIONS


• 2: The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal: The Case of Civis Britannicus (Mrinalini Sinha)


• 3: Can the Postcolonial Begin? Deprovincializing Assam (Bodhisattva Kar)


• 4: Maladies of Modernity: Malaria and the Making of Burdwan Fever (Rohan Deb Roy)


• 5: The Mofussil and the Modern: The Discreet Charms of Kangal Harinath (Atig Ghosh)


• SECTION II: PROBING POLITICS


• 6: Minority and Modernity: B.R. Ambedkar and Dalit Politics (Anupama Rao)


• 7: Gandhi's Religion (Ajay Skaria)


• 8: Apocalyptic Effects: Questions of Globalization and Islam (Faisal Devji)


• 9: A Pattern for National Modernity: Politics in Pakistan (Ian Bedford)


• SECTION III: CRITICAL CULTURES


• 10: Ripening with the Earth: On Maturity and Modernity in South India (Anand Pandian)


• 11: Modern Senses: Of Selves, Citizens, Nationals, and Subjects (Véronique Bénéï)


• 12: The Intellectual's Hidden Body: Affect and Mood in Family Planning (Kalpana Ram)


• 13: Ethno-logics: Paradigms of Modern Identity (Townsend Middleton)


• SECTION IV: AFFECTING ARTS


• 14: Advertising in India: Genealogies of the Consumer Subject (Arvind Rajagopal)


• 15: Architectonic Improvisations: Modern Design in Postcolonial India (Jaideep Chatterjee)


• 16: Making Art Modern: Revisiting Modernism in India (Sanjukta Sunderasan)


• 17: Afterword (Prathama Banerjee)


• Notes on Contributors