Questions of Modernity

Preface vii Introduction xi Timothy Mitchell The Stage of Modernity 1(34) Timothy Mitchell Two Poets and Death: On Civil and Political Society in the Non-Christian world 35(14) Partha Chatterjee Witness to Suffering: Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Modern subject in Bengal 49(38) Dipesh Chakrabarty Modern Subjects: Egyptian Melodrama and Postcolonial Difference 87(28) Lila Abu-Lughod The Thin Line of Modernity: Some Moroccan Debates on Subjectivity 115(33) Stefania Pandolfo The Sovereignty of History: Culture and Modernity in the Cinema of Satyajit Ray 148(18) Nicholas B. Dirks The Making of Modernity: Gender and Time in Indian Cinema 166(23) Veena Das Body Politic in Colonial India 189(34) Gyan Prakash Contributors 223(2) Index 225