Gyanendra Pandey explores the complex and varied ways in which men in colonial and postcolonial India navigate their domestic lives across stratified castes and classes.

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University and author of A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India, and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, among other books.

Dramatis Personae
Prelude. Fragments of Family
I. Legacies
1. The Indian Modern
2. Homes Our Fathers Built
II. Practices
3. Duty
4. Discipline
5. Dignity
III. History in a Visceral Register
6. The Things Men Touched
7. The Nature of Men
Epilogue. Ym Ylimaf
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index