| Introduction: Criticism after Postcoloniality | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Rationalities | 21 |
| Ch. 1 | Colonial Governmentality | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | Religion in Colonial Civil Society | 53 |
| Ch. 3 | The Government of Freedom | 70 |
| Pt. 2 | Histories | 91 |
| Ch. 4 | Dehistoricizing History | 93 |
| Ch. 5 | "An Obscure Miracle of Connection" | 106 |
| Pt. 3 | Futures | 129 |
| Ch. 6 | The Aftermaths of Sovereignty | 131 |
| Ch. 7 | Community, Number and the Ethos of Democracy | 158 |
| Ch. 8 | Fanonian Futures? | 190 |
| Coda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politics | 221 |
| Acknowledgements | 225 |
| Index | 227 |
