Page numbers in bold refer to figures.

1857 Rebellion, viii, x, 1, 42, 85, 93, 102, 158

Adas, Michael, 147, 170, 183

affect, ix, x, xi, xii, 2, 4–12, 25, 29, 34, 36, 42, 51, 54, 55, 56, 59–73, 102, 107, 156, 158, 170, 178–183, 187–92

“affective communities,” 30, 151, 152

and emotion, 10

negative, xi, xii, 8, 26, 32, 34, 56, 59, 139, 185

see also: friendship

Africa, 44, 134, 154, 171

African, 107, 124, 126

African American, 164

Pan-African Congress, 160

Scramble for Africa, 125

South Africa, 17, 32, 90, 134, 165, 174

Agamben, Giorgio, 23, 26

Age of Consent Act, 36, 40, 51–55, 63, 64, see also: sexual violence

controversy, 34, 39–56, 63, 119

agency, 20, 74, 169

Ahmad, Aijaz, xiii, 130

Ahmad, Sarah, 9, 11, 27, 35

Ahmad, Siraj, 27

Aldrich, Robert, 66

ambivalence, xiii, 28, 76, 162, 169, 170, 182, 183

America, 46, 112, 118, 120, 124–30, 142, 152, 153, 165, 175

Anam, Nasia, 43

Anderson, Benedict, 4, 111

Anglosphere

colonial, 20

imperial, 150

Indian, x, 12, 13, 16–20, 32, 73, 78, 82, 97, 106, 107, 115, 131, 133, 150, 172

anticapitalist, 174

anticolonialism x, xii, xiv, 4, 10, 12, 19, 40, 42, 45, 51, 61, 63, 67–69, 75, 99, 109, 111, 113, 131, 133, 134, 144, 146, 149–52, 156–62, 172, 175, 178, 181, 183, 190

apartheid, ix, 32

Aravamudan, Srinivas, 173, 174

Arnold, Matthew, 119, 120, 128

Babu, 12, 25, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44–46, 51, 56–62, 63, 66–69, 76, 77, 78, 97, 100, 134, 156, 157, 188

Babu English, 43

see also: caricature

Bakhle, Janaki, 12

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 80, 93

bande mataram, 29, 45, 99

see also: Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra

Banerjee, Sukanya, 30, 35, 45, 89, 117

Bangavasi,

periodical, 21, 34–36, 53, 55, 59–61, 63

trial, xi, 3, 6, 8, 32–40, 51–69, 186

Barber, Karin, 128

Barrier, Gerald, 5

Basker, James, 113

Basu, Rajshekhar, 81–83

see also: Parashuram

Bayly, Christopher, 1, 14

Bengal, 1, 13, 15, 19, 23, 40, 43, 44, 45, 53–67, 81, 82, 86–89, 97–99, 102, 115, 133, 148, 172, 178–81

Bengali, 1, 15, 40, 43–45, 53, 57, 59–62, 66, 67, 81, 82, 97, 99, 172, 181

partition of, 92–102, 133, 178

tiger, 86–89

see also: caricature

Berlant, Lauren, 9, 11

Bhaba, Homi, x, 12, 27–29, 74–78

see also: mimicry, sly civility

Biggar, Nigel, 189, 190

Boehmer, Elleke, 18, 152, 173

Bombay, xi, 13, 14, 51, 72, 74, 83, 91, 141, 150, 151, 170, 172, 175, 189

Bose, Chunder Nath, 57, 59

Bourdieu, Pierre, 78–81, 114

Brake, Laurel, 121, 143

Brennan, Timothy, 20

Brouillette, Sarah, 131

Burton, Antoinette, 131

Calcutta, xi, 1, 3, 13, 14, 33–35, 38, 55, 56, 74, 112, 116, 117, 129, 138, 151, 175, 175

caricature, 12, 14, 45, 45, 46, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 85, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 97, 107, 109, 111, 134

caste, 83, 133, 153, 155, 165, 179, 189

censorship, vii, 4, 5, 7, 10–12, 17, 18, 26–32, 40, 51, 71–73, 92, 97, 102, 113, 130, 140–42, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 174, 180, 183, 189, 191, 196

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 39

Chatman, Seymour, 79, 80, 107

Chatterjee, Partha, 4, 14, 22, 52

Cholera, 41

Christianity, 13, 83, 115, 116, 147, 148, 164, 169, 170

civility, 16, 28, 46, 191, 192

incivility, 191, 192, see also: sly civility

class, vii, ix, 2, 3, 19, 20, 39, 45, 60, 62, 76, 85, 91, 111, 113, 119, 124, 148, 149, 152, 164, 166

middle class, vii, ix, 2, 3, 19, 20, 39, 45, 60, 62, 76, 85, 91, 111, 113, 119, 124, 148, 149, 152, 164, 166

working class, 41, 63, 64, 65, 14, see also: caste

Codell, Julie, 175

Cohen, Ed, 65

communism, 183

see also: socialism

conspiracy, 38, 67, 140

Contagious Diseases Act, 63–65

cosmopolitanism, 20, 30, 113, 114, 117, 120, 130–33, 147–50, 157, 161, 166, 169, 172–75

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 20, 30, 113, 114, 117, 120, 130, 131

Devere, Heather, 165

Dirks, Nicholas, 36–38

dissent, viii, ix, xi, 8, 12, 22, 32, 35, 44, 45, 73, 86, 107, 130, 133, 156, 178, 185, 188, 189

Donogh, Walter Russell, 2, 3, 7

Dutta, Krishna, 46

East and West, see: periodicals

East India Company, 13, 37, 56, 93, 115

Edgar, John, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66

Elgin, Lord Thomas Bruce, 6, 7

effeminacy, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 62, 66, 67, 69, 178

see also: masculinity

Enlightenment, 10, 13, 22, 28, 75, 113, 114, 120, 172, 174, 175, 191

English-Speaking

folk, 112, 124, 125, 130

Indians, 19, 20, 93, 178

Races, 124–27

World, 13, 128

Fanon, Frantz, 191

Floyd, George, 191

Forster, E. M., xi, 146, 152, 156–58, 171, 183

Passage to India, 152, 157, 158, 183

Fraser, Nancy, 15, 16, 61

Freitag, Sandria, 14, 16

friendship, 75, 150–52, 156–58, 162, 165–68, 174, 177, 180

see also: Civility

Gandhi, Leela, 18, 30, 151, 173

Gandhi, Mahatma, xii, 4, 12, 17, 21, 32, 40, 67–69, 134, 158, 165, 166, 170, 174, 177, 185–89, 192

trial for sedition, xii, 4, 12, 21, 32, 67, 68, 185

gender, 20, 34, 40, 51, 54, 68, 69, 71, 72, 82, 102, 119, 162, 163, 189

Ghosh, Amitav, 5

Ghosh, Durba, 20, 23, 179

Gibson, Mary Ellis, 18, 30

Gilmartin, David, 33

GoGwilt, Christopher, 148, 149

Gokhale, G. K., 165–70

see also: Universal Races Congress (URC)

Goswami, Manu, 149

Gramsci, Antonio, 149

Griffiths, Andrew, 128

Guha, Ranajit, 5, 26

Gujarati, 15, 74, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 97

Habermas, Jürgen, x, 11, 15, 16

Hastings, Warren, 36, 37, 38, 39

Hindi, 43, 90, 91

Hindi Punch, see: periodicals

Hinduism, 13, 21, 34, 44, 46, 53–55, 71, 83, 89, 98, 102, 116, 117, 146, 147, 154, 159, 173, 174, 179, 180, 181, 189

Hindustan Review, 138, 169

Hofmeyr, Isabel, 18, 11, 112, 172

Hoggett, Paul, 9

Hussain, Nasser, 22, 23

incivility, x, 191, 192

see: Civility

Indian Charivari, see: periodicals

Indian Opinion, see: periodicals

Indian Penal Code, viii, 2, 21, 22, 34, 153

Section 124a, vii, ix, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13, 21–26, 34, 38, 40, 53–56, 60–64, 67, 68, 71, 79, 92, 102, 109, 153, 165, 166, 188–92

Section 153a, 2

Indian World, see: periodicals

see also: Review of Reviews

Ingram, Brannon D., 14, 15

internationalism, 120, 124, 149, 172

Irish nationalism, 41, 42, 65, 97, 126, 133, 181

Islam, 37, 98, 102, 117, 154, 183, 189

Jain, Anurag, 153

Jameson, Fredric, xiii, xiv

Jones, William, 27

Kalighat

Temple, 14, 46, 89

paintings, 46, 76, 89

see also: caricature

Kamra, Sukeshi, xiii, 2, 4, 12, 36, 61, 73

Kannada, 15

Kaur, Raminder, 25, 26

Kennedy, Dane, 20

Khanduri, Ritu, 85, 86–91

Kipling, Rudyard, xi, 45, 46, 152–58, 171, 178

The Eyes of Asia, 152–56

Kim, 47, 76, 152, 155, 156

Mookerjee, Hureee Chunder, 45, 47, 155

Klancher, Jon, 113

Kolsky, Elizabeth, ix

Koven, Seth, 151

Lelyveld, David, 14

lithography, 91, 92

Locke, John, 24

Long, James, 1, 25

Lyall, C. J., 56, 60, 61, 66

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 24, 27, 62, 130, 147–49, 167, 173, 174

Makdisi, Saree, 149

Malabari, Behramji, 51, 52, 156, 172, 173

see also: East and West

Manalansan IV, Martin F., xii, xiii

Marathi, 29

Mark, Simon, 165

Martin, Amy, 42

masculinity, 35, 36, 44–46, 53, 55, 63–69, 111, 178, 188

see also: effeminacy

Mayhew, Henry, 85

Mazzarella, William, 25, 26

McDonald, Peter, 32

Mehta, Deepak, 189

Mehta, Uday, 24

Menke, Richard, 120

Meyer, Moe, 65, 66

Mill, John Stuart, 21, 24

Miller, Elizabeth, 175

mimicry, x, 12, 17, 27–32, 51, 72–82, 105, 107, 141, 142, 155, 156, 171

colonial, 17, 27, 28, 74, 75

print, x, 17, 27, 28, 74, 142, 186, 189

see also: Bhaba, Homi

Mitter, Partha, 86, 92, 109

Mookerjee, Hurree Chunder, see: Kipling, Rudyard

Morley, Lord John, 73, 107, 134, 140

Morris, William, 114, 174

Morton, Stephen, 3, 23, 97, 98

Mother India, 13, 42, 54, 71, 72, 89, 102, 119, 155

see also: Bande Mataram, caricature, swadeshi

Mullen, Patrick, 41

Muñoz, José, 17

Mussel, James, 143

Nandy, Ashis, 68, 74, 75

Naregal, Veena, 19, 20

Native Newspaper Report (NNR), 2

New Imperialism, 128

Newell Stephanie, 44, 45

Newnes, George, 119, 120, 127

Tit-Bits, 119, 120, 127

see also: Stead, W. T.

Ngai, Sianne, 5, 6, 11

Nussbaum, Martha, 9

Nyong’o, Tavia, 191, 192

obscenity, 24, 25

O’Donnell, F. Hugh, 41, 42

Orientalism, 147, 149, 167

see also: Said, Edward

Orsini, Francesca, 14

Pall Mall Gazette, see: periodicals

Panchoba, 93, 102

see also: Hindi Punch

Parashuram, 81–82

see: Basu, Rajshekhar

parody, xi, 30, 73, 66, 74, 75–86, 93, 90, 93, 97, 98, 102, 107, 109, 117

see also: satire, mimicry

Partition (of Bengal), 92–102, 133, 178

Passage to India, see: Forster, E. M.

Periodicals, 1, 2, 12, 13, 16–21, 27–32, 36–40, 42, 51, 55–62, 72, 74, 82–86, 90–93, 97, 109–23, 126, 129–33, 139–43, 148, 151, 165, 169–78, 183

Bangavasi, 21, 34–36, 53, 55, 59–61, 63

Calcutta Review, 13, 34, 112, 116, 117, 129, 138, 175

East and West, xi, 20, 32, 51, 117, 126, 138, 142, 145–51, 157–83, see also: Malabari, Behramji

Friend of Indian and Statesman, 40

Hindi Punch, xi, 83, 84, 87–99, 102–09, 118, 133, 138, 182, see also: Panchoba

Indian Charivari, xi, 74, 76, 78, 84, 85, 97, 98, 100, 101

Indian Opinion, 17, 90, 134, 165, 174, 175, see also: Gandhi, Mahatma xi, 74, 76, 78, 83–93, 96, 97, 99, 107, 134, 137

Indian World, xi, 2, 21, 22, 34, 132, 135, 136, 153

Irish Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 41

Liverpool Mercury, 41

Nation, 42

Northern Echo, 41

Pall Mall Gazette, 118, 119, 140, see also: Stead, W. T.

Review of Reviews, xi, 17, 18, 40, 52, 90, 112, 118, 119, 121–26, 128–31, 138–4 2, 159, 177

see also: Stead, W. T.

Standard, 41

Times of India, 40, 61

Postcolonial

era, 189

literature, xiii, xiv, 141

publics, x, 14, 15

studies, 27, 150, 190

subjectivity, 20

Punch (British), see: periodicals

Punjabi, 89

race, 66, 73, 97, 124, 160–65, 169, 175, 179, 181

“English Speaking Races,” 124–27

Raman, Bhavani, 43

Rancière, Jacques, 16

Ray, Prithwis Chandra, 129–31, 141, 142

review, xi, 30, 40, 111–18, 129–33

Review of Reviews, see: periodicals

Rose, Margaret, 80

Roy, Arundhati, viii, 192

Rudy, Jason, 18

Sagar, Rahul, 19

Said, Edward, 18, 149

see also: Orientalism

Sangari, Kumkum, 16

Sanskrit, 55, 68, 89, 116, 180

Sarkar, Tanika, 54

Sastri, Ramaswamy, 180, 181

see also: East and West

satire, 74, 79, 81, 84–87, 89, 92, 97, 133, 134, 157

see also: mimicry, parody

Schneider, Wendie Ellen, 56

Schwarz, Henry, 115

Scott, J. Barton, 14, 15

Section 124a, see: Indian Penal Code

Sedgwick, Eve, 31, 51

sedition, vii, viii, 3–9, 24–35, 38–42, 53, 54, 60–69, 73, 98, 107, 133, 134, 139, 140, 185–88

sexuality, xi, 17, 34, 40, 51, 53, 65–69

homosexuality, 33, 36, 41, 51, 52, 63–69, 119

queer, 17, 34, 36

sexual violence, 71, 102, 158, 169

rape, 28, 53, 56, 71, 72, 102

Shah, Svati, 34, 35

Shaw, Graha, 18, 91

Singh, Gujendra, 154

Sinha, Mrinalini, 18, 20, 63, 64

Slate, Nico, 173

sly civility, 12, 16, 21, 28–32, 62

see also: Bhaba, Homi, civility

socialism, 65, 183d

see also: communism

Spiller, Gustav, 159–64

see also: Universal Races Congress (UCR)

Stead, W. T., xi, 17, 18, 40, 52, 64, 90, 112, 113, 118, 118, 119, 120, 121–31, 136, 138–43, 159

see also: Review of Reviews

Stephen, James Fitzjames, 7, 21, 23, 166

Stephens, Julia, 14, 38

Suleri, Sara, 39

Swadeshi, 53, 99, 131, 179

syncretism, xi, 30, 32, 146–51, 158, 159, 171, 172, 175

see also: Viswanathan, Gauri

Tagore, Rabindranath, 45, 145–47, 152, 157, 178, 181–83

Gitanjali, 145

Tamil, 15, 90

Thompson, Simon, 9

Tilak, Bal Gangadhar, 5, 6, 29, 31, 40, 53, 60, 99, 139, 167, 186

see also: sedition, trials

Tit-Bits, see: Newnes, George

Tompkins, Kyla Wazana, 191, 192

trials

1922 trial for sedition, xii, 4, 12, 21, 32, 67, 68, 185, 186, see also: Gandhi, Mahatma

1987 trial for sedition, 5, 6, 31, 40, 53, 60, see also: Tilak, Bal Gangadhar

Bangavasi, 3, 6, 8, 32–40, 51–69, 186, see also: Age of Consent Act

Great Wahabi Case, 38

Hastings, 37–39

Regina v. Hicklin, 25, see also: obscenity

Trivedi, Assem, 71, 72, 73

See also: Mother India

Universal Races Congress (URC), xii, 150, 158–67, 170, 172

Urdu, 89

van der Veer, Peter, 12, 116, 173

Vande Mataram, see: Bande Mataram

Verbitsky, Jane, 165

Viswanathan, Gauri, 18, 124, 147, 148, 173

Vivekenanda, Swami, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 68, 146, 157, 173

Warner, Michael, 15, 16

Wilde, Oscar, xi, 33–46, 50, 51, 52, 55, 62, 63–69, 159

The Portrait of Dorian Gray, 33

see also: trials

Wilder, Gary, 159

Williams, Carolyn, 82–83