Contents -- Preface -- One. Public Modernity in India -- Part I. The Historical Past -- Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket -- Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio -- Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels -- Five. Dining Out in Bombay -- Part II. The Historical Present -- Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu -- Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film -- Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art -- Nine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New Delhi -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.