| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: | List of illustrations | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Pt. 1 | Dissent and the Nation | 1 | | Ch. 1 | Cross Currents | 3 | | Ch. 2 | A Grammar of Dissent | 44 | | Pt. 2 | Colonial Interventions | 73 | | Ch. 3 | Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies | 75 | | Ch. 4 | Silencing Heresy | 118 | | Ch. 5 | Ethnographic Plots | 153 | | Ch. 6 | Conversion Theosophy, and Race Theory | 177 | | Pt. 3 | The Imagined Community | 209 | | Ch. 7 | Conversion to Equality | 211 | | Ch. 8 | Epilogue: The Right to Belief | 240 | | Appendix | The Census of India, 1901 | 255 | | Notes | 261 | | Select Bibliography | 297 | | Index | 317 | Return to Book Description File created: 4/23/2008 |