List of Abbreviations
Preface

1. Introduction
Walking with a Flaneur to Modernity: Reflections on Ashis Nandy as a Theorist
Shail Mayaram

I Modernity, Problems and Pathologies
2. Sleeping with the Enemy: Penetrations and (S) permutations D. Ahmed
3. The Economics of Limits and the Limits of Economics Stephen A. Marglin
4. Civilisation-talk, Contemporary Global Relations, and the Humanities: Predicament and Promise Arif Dirlik
5. Trump and America: A Study in Individual Psychology and Collective Regression Avner Falk
II Modernity, Enchantments and Reenchantments
6. Beyond the Alternative History and Alternative to History Debate: Reflections on Pain, Justice, Reconciliation and the Right to History Shail Mayaram
7. Tagore' Non-nation Partha Chatterjee
8. Nandy on Religion and Secularism: A Reappraisal Rajeev Bhargava
9. Playing with Memory: Beyond Universal Time and Universal Man
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
10. Madame Blavatsky's Visionary Travels and the Work of the Dream-ego
Gananath Obeyesekere
11. Precarious Citizens, Cyber-nationalism: South-South Asia's New and Old Diasporas
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Notes on the Contributors
Index