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December, 2006
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Contents

Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	3
What Difference Does Difference Make?: Hybridity Reconsidered by Deepika Bahri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	5
Mapping Hybridity: Historicizing Cultural and Racial Hybrids in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth And Pouring Rain by Loretta Mijares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	30
Beyond Hybridity and Purity: Anglo-Indian Marginality and the Postcolonial Condition in The Everest Hotel by Rohit Chopra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	53
Shifting Grounds: Edentity, Partition, and the Anglo-Indian Subject of History by Namita Goswami. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	74
The Descendants of John Bull and Mother India by Geraldine Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	99
Sentimentalizing Empire: Interracial Romance in Philip Meadows Taylor's Seeta by Joy Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	113
Race to the Altar: Philip Meadows Taylor's Guarded Optimism by Veda Laxmi Khulpateea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	130
"Teri Chunni De Sitare": No Mixing Pleae, We are Indian! by Angali Gera Roy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	153
Obscure Objects/Defiant Subjects: Anglo-Indian Women in Hindi Cinema by Meheli Sen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	182
Dougla Logics, Miscegenation and the National Imaginary in Trinidad by Viranjini Munasinghe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	204
The Second Generation British Asian's Search for an Interstitial Identity in Hanif Kureishi's My Beautiful Laundretta and Farrukh Dhondy's The Bride and Romance, Romance by Ymitri Mathison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	233
Book Reviews Jaysinh Birjepatil, Looking in, Looking Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	249
Richard D. Keiser, Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	252
Rumina Sethi, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	256
Rajender Kaur, New Cosmopolitans: South Asians in the US. . . . . . . . .	263
Jennifer Yusin, Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	267
Hayat Alvi-Aziz, The Regional roots of Developmental Politics in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	270
Steven Salaita, The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	274
Nalini Iyer, The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	276
Hans-George Erney, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	279
Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	283
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	289

Last Reviewed: September 8, 2007