Readership: Students and scholars of cultural studies, South Asian postcolonial literature, literary theory, and performance studies, as well as general readers
Acknowledgements, Preface, Prologue 1.: ASIA What is Asia?; One Asia; The Nation as Museum; Implicit Hierarchies; The Awakening of the East; Encountering Nivedita; Problematizing the Postcolonial; The Complication of Beauty 2.: NATIONALISM The Enigma of Silence; Swadeshi Samaj; Gora's Bharatbarsha; Negotiating 'Nothingness'; Against Nationalism; Reorienting the Orient; Crisis in 'Civilization'; Grounds of Misunderstanding; Discriminating the Modern; Homage to the West; 'Our History'; Countering Tagore 3.: COSMOPOLITANISM Asian Cosmopolitans?; Reclaiming Cosmopolitanism; The Subaltern 'Cosmopolitan'; Negotiating Privilege; Cultural Property, or Loot?; Cosmopolitics of Dress and Language; The Cosmopolitan in Exile 4.: FRIENDSHIP The Intertexts of Love; Beyond Masculinity; Homosociality in Context; Modalities of Friendship; Foreign Friends; War and Friendship Epilogue, Notes , References, Index
