Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface. On the Grounds xiii
5. Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone 1
6. Chapter 1 Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English 29
7. Chapter 2 Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared 60
8. Chapter 3 Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature 98
9. Chapter 4 Sound: The Mother’s Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India 124
10. Chapter 5 Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading 148
11. Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement 178
12. Notes 181
13. Index 199