2 DiagnosingMoral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: subject to pedagogy
6. 1 Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference 17
7. 2 DiagnosingMoral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object 47
8. 3 Which Past? Whose History? 79
9. Part II: modern knowledge, modern nation
10. 4 Governmentality and Identity: Constituting the ‘‘Backward but Proud Muslim’’ 109
11. 5 Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education 129
12. 6 Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination 159
13. Epilogue: Knowing Modernity, Being Modern 183
14. Notes 197
15. Bibliography 235
16. Index 259