Nandy, Ashis, 32n47, 97, 111–112, 123n3, 124–125n10, 130n54, 132n69, 264n61

Naoroji, Dadabhai, 88

National Democratic Alliance (NDA), 5, 109

nation-stateSee also state, 3, 8, 14, 17, 20, 94n75, 95–97, 100, 104–110, 117–118, 123n1, 128n49, 146, 151, 160, 170, 172n8, 190, 194–196, 234–235, 245, 253–255

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1, 3, 8, 13–14, 21, 23, 89, 96, 106–109, 112, 127nn34–35, 128nn41–42, 128n44, 129n49, 130n53, 130n55, 156

neoliberalism, 3, 15, 143–145, 159–161, 167, 174n20, 177n86, 255, 257

new media, 18, 246–247

nomos, 39–41, 43–48, 56, 62n11, 63n18, 64n27, 70–73, 75, 82–84, 86–87, 108, 110–112, 115–118, 122, 132n69, 143–146, 150, 152, 154–155, 159–161, 164, 168–169, 248, 251–256

nonresident Indians (NRIs), 11, 148, 151, 165–166, 172n8, 234, 236

Operation Bluestar, 209

“organic crisis,”, 58

Orientalist–Anglicist controversy, 77–78, 80

Pakistan, 156, 172n8, 191–194, 222, 256

Parsis, 126n28

Partition, 190–191, 193

Permanent Settlement Act of 1793, 72

Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs), 165, 172n8, 234, 261n3

planning, 14, 32n47, 108, 111, 130n54

Poster, Mark, 239–240

practice, 35, 37–40, 45–48, 50–51, 54, 59

Prakash, Gyan, 2, 15, 84–86, 94n71, 94n75, 108, 123n3, 125n10, 127nn34–35, 129n49, 130n55

press. See media

“pseudosecularism,”See also secularism, 8, 158, 169, 250

Punjab, 156, 190–192, 194, 197

Puranas, 85

RajSee also colonialism, 73, 115

Rajagopal, Arvind, 11, 161, 165, 169, 256

railways, 15, 74, 79, 98–101

Ramayana,, 170

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, 24, 155

religion, 3, 7–8, 43, 58–61, 79, 82–83, 85, 92n44, 98, 101–103, 106–107, 126n25, 138–140, 142, 158, 195, 198

Resolution of March 7, 1835, 78

Rheingold, Howard, 238–240

rights, 22, 46, 72, 76, 158, 161, 182, 189, 191, 195–197, 204–205, 215–216, 221, 223–225, 227, 257

riots, 5, 13, 26n5, 157, 197, 205, 209, 211, 225

Roy, Raja Ram Mohan, 77, 80

Ryotwari settlement,, 72