Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Anxieties of distance: codification in early colonial Bengal; 2. Rammohan Roy and the advent of constitutional liberalism in India, 1800–30; 3. Contesting translations: orientalism and the interpretation of the Vedas; 4. Apologetic modernity; 5. Beyond culture-contact and colonial discourse: 'Germanism' in colonial Bengal; 6. Striking a just balance: Maulana Azad as a theorist of transnational Jihad; 7. Self, Spencer and Swaraj: nationalist thought and critiques of liberalism, 1890–1920; 8. The spirit and form of an ethical polity: a meditation on Aurobindo's thought; 9. Geographies of subjectivity, pan-Islam and Muslim separatism: Muhammad Iqbal and selfhood; Afterword; List of Contributors.

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