Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Moral Imperfection: An Ethics for Democracy 1
5. 1. After Virtue: The Strange Case of Belle Époque Socialist Antimaterialism 29
6. 2. On Descent: Stories from the Gurus of Modern India 55
7. 3. Elementary Virtues: The Great War and the Crisis of European Man 93
8. 4. Inconsequence: Some Little- Known Mutinies Around 1946 116
9. Epilogue: Paths of Ahimsaic Historiography 149
10. Notes 167
11. Index 229