Of matters modern : the experience of modernity in colonial and postcolonial south Asia edited by Debraj Bhattacharya

Includes bibliographical references and index. Six notes on a partly understood phenomenon / Debraj Bhattacharya --Who sang the hybrid muse? : 'Fusion' music in late-eighteenth-century India / Sharmadip Basu --The Assam fever : identities of a disease and diseases of an identity / Bodhisattva Kar --Sahib outlaws in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee --Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73) : a Bengali poet with Italian connections / William Radice --The politics of reformist Islam in India : the ambiguous legacy of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan / Kingshuk Chatterjee --Zalim Daku and the Mystery of the Rubber sea monster : Urdu detective fiction in 1930's Punjab and the experience of colonial modernity / Markus Daechsel --Three narratives on modernity in a colonial metropolis : Calcutta during the early twentieth century / Debraj Bhattacharya --Critique of the Bhadralok and the Bhadralok critic / Parimal Ghosh --Supermother for a nation : reading Gandhari / Aryak Guha --Residual nationalism and the Indian (radical?) intellectual : on indigenism, authenticity and the colonizer's presents / Benjamin Zachariah