Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration

• Introduction
• Part One
  • 1. Physical and Cultural Shocks
  • 2. The City as Object
  • 3. The Library and Its Surroundings
  • 4. Unknown Gods and Life-Styles
  • 5. Further Pursuit of Informants: The Metalworkers
• Part Two
  • 6. A Shift in Technique
  • 7. Woodworkers
  • 8. Weavers
  • 9. Categories and Units of Observation
  • 10. Among the Police and Administration
  • 11. The Researcher at Home
  • 12. Death
• Part Three
  • 13. My Research Assistant
  • 14. Inside a Police Station
  • 15. Abdul Jabbar
  • 16. Questions of Gender
  • 17. Rapacity and Recovery
  • 18. Progress and Its Limitations
  • 19. The Pleasures of the Body
  • 20. Holi Saturnalia
• Part Four
  • 21. A Break from Banaras
  • 22. Ethnography in the Archives
  • 23. Patterns of Selectivity
  • 24. Departure

• Glossary