Table of Contents;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction;
1. Colonialism and Cultural Change;
2. Formation of Cultural Consciousness;
3. Culture as Ideology;
4. Culture in the Making of Nationalism;
5. Cultural Pasts and National Identity;
6.The 'Great' Shoe Question: Tradition, Legitimacy, and Power in Colonial India;
7.Search for Alternatives: The Meaning of the Past in Colonial India;
8.Whatever Happened to the Renaissance in India?
9.Novel as Colonial Narrative;
10.Creating a New Cultural Taste;
11.Indigenous Medicine and Cultural Hegemony;
12.The Revolt of Velu Tampi;
13. Agrarian Legislation and Social Classes;
14. Peasant Resistance and Revolts in Malabar;
15.History Textbooks: Narratives of Religious Nationalism;
Glossary;
Index.