Note on Transliteration | ix
Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1
1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21
2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53
3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87
4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126
5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165
Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209
Acknowledgments | 221
Notes | 225
Index | 255