Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
One. Public Modernity in India......Page 12
Part I. The Historical Past......Page 32
Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket......Page 34
Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio......Page 60
Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels......Page 77
Five. Dining Out in Bombay......Page 101
Part II. The Historical Present......Page 140
Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu......Page 142
Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film......Page 168
Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art......Page 194
Nine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New Delhi......Page 227
Contributors......Page 260
A......Page 262
C......Page 263
D......Page 264
G......Page 265
I......Page 266
K......Page 267
M......Page 268
P......Page 269
R......Page 270
T......Page 271
Z......Page 272