Table of Contents:
  • Mughal on my lapel : miniatures, mughalerie, and the souvenir market in Delhi, 1827-1880 / Yutika Sharma
  • Plates and bangles : early recorded music in India / Amlan Das Gupta
  • The overland mail : moving panoramas and the imagining of trade and communication networks / John Plunkett
  • Exhibiting India : colonial subjects, imperial objects, and the lives of commodities / Supriya Chaudhuri
  • The composition and decomposition of commodities : the colonial careers of coal and ivory / Stephen Muecke
  • Profaning water : the sacred and its others / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
  • Settling the land : the village and the threat of capital in the novel in Goa / Rochelle Pinto
  • (Re)moving bodies : people, ships and other commodities in the coolie trade from Calcutta / Nilanjana Deb
  • Anxiety, affect and authenticity : the commodification of nineteenth-century emigrants' letters / Fariha Shaikh
  • Towards a genealogy of the village in the nineteenth-century British colonial world : Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine / Josephine McDonagh
  • Indigo and print : the strange case of the "indigo-planting mirror" / Abhijit Gupta
  • Al Jabr W'al Muqabila, H.S. Hall, MacMillan and the coming together of things far apart / Rimi B. Chatterjee
  • Ulysses in "darkest Africa" : transporting tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold / Brian H. Murray
  • The traffic in representations : the case of Kipling's Kim / Isobel Armstrong.