Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Where these Essays are Coming From 1
5. Colonial Knowledge-Formation
6. Friedrich Max Müller 21
7. Sanskrit Scholars and Pandits of the Old School 45
8. Sati as a Religious Rite 66
9. Mosques, Temples, and Fields of Disputation in a Late-Eighteenth-Century Chronicle 91
10. Vernacular Histories in Late-Nineteenth-Century Banaras 110
11. Vaishnava Renewals c. 1600–1900
12. Forging Community 141
13. Women, Duty, and Sanctified Space in a Vaishnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century 173
14. The Sixth Gaddi of the Vallabha Sampradaya 189
15. The Modernity of Tradition 210
16. The Hindi Novel
17. A Novel Moment in Hindi 231
18. Generic Questions 251
19. Pilgrimage, Fairs, and the Secularization of Space in Modern Hindi Narrative Discourses 286
20. The Locations of Hindi 309
21. Hindi, Nation, and Community 335
22. Index 367