Preface and Acknowledgments.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface and Acknowledgments. xi
4. Chapter One. Whose Imagined Community? 1
5. Chapter Two. The Colonial State 14
6. Chapter Three. The Nationalist Elite 35
7. Chapter Four. The Nation and Its Pasts 76
8. Chapter Five. Histories and Nations 95
9. Chapter Six. The Nation and Its Women 116
10. Chapter Seven. Women and the Nation 135
11. Chapter Eight. The Nation and Its Peasants 158
12. Chapter Nine. The Nation and Its Outcasts 173
13. Chapter Ten. The National State 200
14. Chapter Eleven. Communities and the Nation 220
15. Notes 241
16. Bibliography 263
17. Index 273