Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa /
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid
- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
- Domesticity and cultural intimacy
- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief
- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".