The stage of modernity / Timothy Mitchell.- Two poets and death : on civil and political society in the non-Christian world / Partha Chatterjee.- Witness to suffering : domestic cruelty and the birth of the modern subject in Bengal / Dipesh Chakrabarty.- Modern subjects : Egyptian melodrama and postcolonial difference / Lila Abu-Lughod.- The thin line of modernity : some Moroccan debates on subjectivity / Stefania Pandolfo.- The sovereignty of history : culture and modernity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray / Nicholas B. Dirks.- The making of modernity : gender and time in Indian cinema / Veena Das.- Body politic in colonial India / Gyan Prakash.