Chapter I Introduction: Historical Sociology and the Study of Nation and Nationalism in India
Change in the Agenda
The Sociology of Nationalism
Chapter II Colonial Rule and the Old Order
Pre-Colonial India
Modes of Cultural Interaction
The Impact of Colonial Rule
Chapter III Nation: Homogenization of Power within Culture
Rise of Political Consciousness
The Nation's Struggle to be Born
Muslim Political Awakening
Mass Emergence as Anti-Colonialism
Chapter IV Nationalism: The Movement for Transfer of Power
The Birth of the National
The Nationalists
Chapter V Nationalism: Competing Ideologies and Contrasting Visions
Ideology and Indian Historiography
Nationalism as an Ideology
Nationalism and the Invention of Tradition
Chapter VI Nationalism and Nation: The Gandhian Synthesis
Gandhi as an Event
Gandhian Political Mobilization
Chapter VII Nationalism without Nation
Inventing or Preventing the Nation
The Failure to Emerge
A Consolidated Bibliography of Books and Articles
Index