Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: Stereotypes as Provocation 1
5. 1. Why the Stereotype? Why South Asia? 11
6. 2. To Understand Me, You’ll Have to Swallow a World 50
7. 3. Slumdog or White Tiger? 85
8. 4. The Dead That Haunt Anil’s Ghost 119
9. 5. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane 151
10. 6. Good and Bad Transnationalisms? 187
11. Epilogue: The Afterlife of Stereotypes 221
12. Notes 233
13. Bibliography 285
14. Index 305