Index

Aberigh-Mackay, George, 162n17, 167n14
aboriginal(s), 39, 41, 76, 160n10, 160n13
accent(s), vii, 15, 18, 19, 35, 45–46, 47, 48, 73, 88, 113–15; and passing, 76–80, 84, 85
Adorno, Theodor: on the animal, 28, 105, 106, 140, 141, 153n32; on the black man, 137; on the body, 10, 107, 128, 134, 139, 152n29, 153n34, 170n8; on bourgeois coldness, 30, 140; on the civilizing process, 11, 12, 22–24, 26, 30, 36, 103; on enlightenment, 170n6; on the incarnate moment, 3, 8–10, 105, 134; on jazz, 93; on mimicry, 14, 133; on repression, 25, 31, 97, 134, 135; on the senses, 153n31, 163n22; on suffering, 56, 134, 140
aesthetic(s): bodily, 3, 8, 9, 12–16, 36, 52, 55, 68, 130, 136, 141, 154n37, 154n45, 155n49, 171n11; as capacity for sensation and perception, 23, 32, 139, 151n22; and civilization, 4–13, 18, 20, 21, 32, 39, 108, 109, 126, 130, 156n54; colonial, 21, 36, 44, 59, 75, 139, 151n24; commodity, 6, 7, 21, 23, 44, 49; education in, 12, 14, 124; of existence, 135–36; and form, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 21, 23, 34–36, 68–69, 75, 90, 105, 106, 112, 126, 133, 154n37; and human plasticity, 3–23, 36; Kant on, 53, 117, 164n23; metonymic, 18–21, 85, 90; and mimicry, 4, 12–18, 21, 32, 39, 69, 88, 123. See also postanimal aesthetics and technology
Africa, 27, 41, 91, 93–101, 122, 159n6, 160n12, 173n5; African culture, 14–18, 29, 34, 39, 41, 93, 95, 96, 155, 159; and Indian civilization, 34
African Americans: and jazz, 93; passing as Hindu, 34
African diaspora in India, 39, 159n6
Ahmad, Aijaz, 89, 146n9
Ahmed, Sara, 150n17
Akbar, M. J., 55
Amis, Kingsley, 170n7
Anglo-Indian(s): accent, 48, 162nn16–17; as cosmopolitans, 158n3; culture, 65, 66, 72–74, 166nn5–6, 166n7; education of, 38, 164n24; history of, 33–34, 38, 43, 48, 57, 62–63, 72–73, 157n59, 159n5, 166n5; and Indian Christian converts, 157n58; and national belonging, 62, 65–68, 165n1, 165n3, 167nn8–10, 167nn12–13; and passing, 67, 68, 80, 84–87, 157n58, 167n10; as racial hybrids, 33, 34, 37, 48, 62–63, 67, 106–9, 145n2, 157nn58–60, 158n3, 159n4, 163n21, 166n7, 167n14; women, sexualization of, 78, 164n24
animal(s): animality, 11, 22–24, 26, 31, 78, 97, 129, 130, 140, 155n50; as bare life, 23, 24, 27, 141; being, 5, 10, 30, 50, 112, 126, 129–30, 139, 140, 165n27; and carnivory, 27, 28, 126; and civilization, 10, 11, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 52, 53, 55, 105, 119, 126; and colonialism, 10, 23, 24, 28; and emotions, 30–32; encephalization quotient of, 168n16; Hindoo as, 156n56; human boundary with, 126, 128, 156n56, 172n16; human relationship with, 22, 27, 52, 55, 103, 105, 174n9; living like a good animal, 140, 141; love of, 27, 28, 126, 141, 174n9; moral economy of, 10, 44; the other as, 28–30, 50, 51, 78, 83, 108, 141, 156n56; prehistory, 9, 21–23, 26, 27, 53, 140, 156n55, 165n27; and sacrifice, 106, 109–12, 118, 132; senses, 32, 117, 171n11; and species supremacism, 4, 7, 10, 27, 53; violence toward, 104–7, 116–19, 126–28, 141, 174n9. See also Great Wyrley Outrages; postanimal aesthetics and technology
Anthony, Frank, 38, 65, 166n6
anti-Semitism, 25, 83, 137, 156n53
Arendt, Hannah, 164n23
Aristotle, 12, 87, 154n40, 171n11
Armstrong, Tim, 173n3
Arnold, David, 40, 42, 160n13
Arthurian code, 121; and chivalry, 121, 122, 123, 131
Aryan: heritage, 35, 40, 41, 71, 77; Indo-Aryan kinship, 39, 40, 71, 160nn9–11; mixture with other groups, 24, 155n52; relation to Africa in chain of being, 160n12; thesis, 44, 160n12
assimilation, 12, 16, 19, 21, 33, 46, 68, 80, 88, 90, 95, 114, 125, 136

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 5
Bald, Vivek, 34
Baldwin, James, 148n12
Balibar, Etienne, 152, 172
Barad, Karen, 3
bare life, 27, 112; Nur-lebenden, 22, 24, 141
Barnes, Julian, 4, 28, 104–6, 111, 112, 115–17, 120, 121, 124, 127, 131, 132, 169; Arthur and George, 4, 28, 36, 104–6, 111–13, 115–24, 128–31, 169n2, 170n8, 170n10, 172n17
Barthes, Roland, 77
Baucom, Ian, 8, 151n21
Bauman, Zygmunt, 53
Benjamin, Walter, 11, 12, 26, 51, 56, 143, 146n4, 147n10
Bhabha, Homi, 2, 5, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21, 41, 43, 44, 62, 63, 65, 87–89, 94, 120, 146n9, 147n10, 148n12, 154n41
biological hybridity, 3, 4, 43, 107, 116, 148nn12–13, 158n3; as other than racial mixture, 3–4. See also plastic(ity)
biology: being in the flesh, vii, viii, 3–7, 9–11, 18, 20, 22–24, 27, 35, 36, 44, 90, 112, 133–35, 139, 141, 150n18, 151n20; and culture (sociobiology), 7–9, 13, 15, 26, 28, 33, 85, 87, 105, 138, 139, 154n45, 165n27, 170n8, 173n7; determinism, nondeterminism, viii, 5, 6, 20, 81, 122, 142, 149n16, 150nn18–19, 152n26, 154n43, 154n45, 164n23, 168n16; Fanon on, 15, 19, 28–30, 36; sclerosis, 11, 31, 100, 127, 140. See also capitalist personhood; hybridity; plastic(ity); postcolonial biology
biopoetics, 3, 7, 33
black: blackface, 90; bodies, 15, 16, 161n14, 168n7; men, 15, 17, 30, 42, 74, 93, 115, 122, 137, 148, 153. See also Fanon, Frantz
blackness: and aesthetics, 34; and civilization, 94, 95; and Indian identity, 34, 41, 42, 58, 73; and mimicry, 17, 21, 34, 41; and savagery, 91–93, 141
Blaise, Clark, 37
Blum, Lawrence, 152n27
Blunt, Alison, 67, 164n24, 165n1
body: and culture, 7–9, 13, 15, 26, 28, 33, 85, 87, 105, 138, 139, 154n45, 165n27, 170n8; as object of control and reform, viii, 10, 11–13, 15, 25, 31, 77, 96, 105, 111, 134, 138, 141, 154n44, 155n49; speech as carnal technology, vii, 3, 15, 16, 19, 76, 77; techniques of, 7, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 44, 55, 60, 136, 138, 150n17, 154n45, 155n51; as text, 13, 18, 43, 71, 78, 79, 95, 100, 107, 150nn17–18; Utopian corporeality, 109, 135. See also capitalist personhood; plastic(ity); postcolonial biology
body-mind(s), plasticity of, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 20, 30, 36, 53, 134, 139, 149n15
body-minded mind, 4, 8, 10, 14, 33, 134, 139, 151n23. See also cognition: body-minded or embodied
Bordo, Susan, 150n18
Bose, Nemai Sadhan, 161n15
Bourdieu, Pierre, 2, 13, 26, 154n37, 154n45, 156n54
bourgeois: coldness, 30–31, 105, 140; subject, 28, 30, 31, 36, 43, 46, 53, 105, 129, 137, 140
Boyarin, Daniel, 147n9
Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 83
Brynie, Faith Hickman, 149n15
Buck-Morss, Susan, 29, 32
Buettner, Elizabeth, 35, 48, 157, 158n58, 158n62
Burke, Timothy, 172n2
Burnell, A., 48
Butler, Judith, 150n18

capital(ism), viii, 5–10, 23, 26, 32, 36, 43, 49, 58, 133–36, 138–39, 152n29, 164n25, 172n2, 173n4
capitalist personhood, 6, 8, 32, 36, 49, 133, 135, 173n3, 173n7. See also aesthetics: commodity
Cartesian dualism: mind–body split, 9, 11, 22, 23, 28, 29, 134, 145n3, 152n30, 153n34
caste, 33, 35, 38, 39, 44, 65, 70–72, 79, 113, 115, 157n61, 159n7, 160n9, 166n6, 170n7; as a colonial form of knowledge, 158n61. See also half-caste
caucasian, 40, 41, 159, 160, 169n9
Cavendish, Mary, 151n23
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 46, 160n13
Chalmers, David, 150n16
Chandra, Vikram, 73
chapatti, 61–65
Chatterjee, Partha, 164n24
Chaudhuri, Nirad, 164n24
Chirac, Jacques, 19, 26, 155n47
Choi, Roy, 55
Christian(s), Christianity, 17, 63, 109, 111, 112, 114–16, 124, 127, 132; Anglo-Indians as, 65, 166n6; and the flesh, 26, 170n8; Indian converts to, 63, 115, 157n58
civilization(s): hierarchies of, 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 23, 25, 33–36, 39, 41, 43, 44, 49, 76, 81, 92, 95, 109, 119, 128, 139, 160n13, 161n14; sabhyata, 12, 154n39; tahzeeb, 12, 154n39
civilizing mission, viii, 2, 11, 17, 19–21, 23, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36, 43, 44, 95, 104, 112, 132, 135, 136, 145n1; reincarnative logic of, 1, 3, 4, 7, 14, 57, 76
civilizing process in Europe, 11, 12, 22, 23, 25, 26, 53, 105, 156n54, 171n11, 172n1
Clark, Andrew, 150n16
class: and aesthetics, 55, 88, 126; and colonialism, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 44, 64, 85, 92, 136, 145n2, 146n9; hierarchies of, 2, 21, 30, 47–51, 58, 59, 119, 124, 130, 135, 156n54, 172n15; reversal, 56, 57
Classen, Constance, 53, 156n55, 171n11
Coelho, Gail, 48
cognition: body-minded or embodied, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 87, 139, 149n15, 151n23, 155n48, 156n53, 168n15; extended, 6, 7, 150n16
Cohn, Bernard, 163n23
Collins, Wilkie, 169n3
Collits, Terry, 153n35
colonial: education, vii, 2, 39, 44, 48, 49, 79, 80, 84, 89, 112, 113, 124, 145n1, 159n5, 161n13; violence, 29, 78, 83. See also civilizing mission; mimicry
colonialism, viii, 7, 8, 43, 44, 46, 49, 62, 75, 93, 94, 135, 136, 142, 146n9, 161n15, 166n4, 172n2, 173n6; internal, 33, 39, 139. See also capital(ism)
Corbin, Alain, 53
corporeal schema, 10, 18, 20
cosmopolitanism, 139, 147n9, 158n3
Cox, Jack, 117
craniometry, 81
créolité, 148n13
Cukor, Georg, 66
culture: and diet, 3, 6, 12, 13, 16, 19, 26, 40, 63, 65, 68, 71, 72, 73, 84, 85, 94, 95, 150n17, 154n42, 166n6; and globalization, 136, 138, 139; mimicry as acculturation, 12–14; and music, 6, 12, 19, 83, 93, 155n47, 160n13, 168n15; and nature, 2, 4, 105, 145n3; and race, 5, 9, 14, 15, 89, 108, 128, 133, 151n24, 152n25, 152n28, 154n45, 160n10, 167n12. See also under biology

Dalrymple, William, 55
Damasio, Antonio, vii, 4, 8, 149n15, 151n23, 154n36
Darwin, Charles, 24, 40, 155n52
Davis, Lennard J., 8
D’Cruz, Glenn, 157n60
Deleuze, Gilles, 99
Derrida, Jacques, 22, 61, 128, 140, 141, 147n10, 148n12, 174n9
detective fiction, 103, 104, 107, 108, 110, 116, 120, 121, 169n5
Dewey, Thomas, 8, 149n15
diaspora, 34, 63, 66–68, 71, 89, 101, 158n3, 159n6, 165n1; African, in India, 39, 159n6; Indo-Aryan, 71; Jewish, 65
Dirks, Nicholas, 158n61
disgust, 21, 22, 24–26, 48, 52, 72, 73, 92, 156n53, 163n23
Dover, Cedric, 65
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 28, 104, 106–9; Boy’s Own Paper, 106, 117; “The Mystery of Uncle Jeremy’s Household,” 106, 111, 117; A Study in Scarlet, 106, 169n4
Dravidians, 41, 42

Eagleton, Terry, 8, 139, 151n22, 152n29
Easthope, Anthony, 146n9
Edwards, Owen Dudley, 169n4
Elias, Norbert, 13, 53, 154n45, 156nn53–54, 171n11
Emergency, in Midnight’s Children, 50, 52, 55, 56
emotion(s), 14, 16, 22, 28–32, 74, 77, 94, 134, 146n5, 149n15
empire: and capitalism, viii, 6, 7, 8, 9, 23, 36, 58, 135, 139, 172n2; sociobiological laboratory of, 4, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 36, 90, 107, 133. See also civilizing mission
English(ness), 2, 3, 18, 34, 36, 44, 68, 73, 84, 87, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 104, 113, 114, 116, 123–25, 127, 130, 131, 145n2, 171n12; and chivalry, 121, 122, 123, 131; Goddess of English in India, 162n19; law, 112, 113, 121, 124, 125, 126, 132
epigenetics, 2, 7, 40, 71; and plasticity, 2, 6, 7, 40, 71, 150n19
Epstein, Steven, 152n27
essentialism, 2, 3, 5, 11, 17, 18, 66, 115, 146n9, 148n13, 153n33
ethnicity, 35, 40, 113, 120, 123, 155n46
eumemics, 12, 14, 20, 35, 68. See also mimicry
Eurasian(s), 48, 63, 65, 72, 157n58, 162n17, 164n24, 167n14
exceptionalism, 93, 121, 123–25, 130, 131, 172n16
extimacy, 25, 26

Fanon, Frantz, 7, 9–11, 14–19, 21, 28–30, 32, 36, 45, 59, 65, 91, 93, 133, 134, 135, 137, 146n9, 152nn28–29, 173n6; Black Skin, White Masks, vii, 15, 17–19, 21, 28, 30, 91, 93, 153n35; Toward the African Revolution, 14–18, 32, 36, 45, 65, 133, 135, 137, 152n28; The Wretched of the Earth, 7, 15–17, 28, 29, 135, 173n6
fascism, 25, 28, 90, 141
Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 152n27
form, 1, 2, 4–7, 9–12, 16, 23–25, 35, 36, 39, 45, 53, 74, 100, 105, 107–9, 112, 113, 119, 121, 122, 133, 134, 142; empty form, 11, 31, 32, 52; and rigor mortis, 31, 32, 127, 173n6
Foucault, Michel, 20, 33, 150n17, 168n17
Freud, Sigmund, 24, 53, 63, 91, 92, 116, 123
Friedman, Jonathan, 147n9

Gallese, Vittorio, 149n15
Gandhi, Mahatma, 39, 41, 85, 138, 161n15, 173n5
Gardner, Ava, 66, 162n17
Garnet, Henry Highland, 122
Gates, Henry Louis, 147n10
Gavin, Hector, 172n15
General Dyer, 78
genetic determinism, 3, 19, 71; genetic nondeterminism, 6, 150n19; and racial mixture, 73, 85, 89, 109. See also epigenetics
Ghosh, Amitav, 46, 50, 55, 160n13, 161n14
Ghosh, Durba, 157n58
Gidney, Henry, 158n3
Gikandi, Simon, 34, 113, 151n24
Gilroy, Paul, 147n11
Gist, Noel P., and Roy Dean Wright, 158n3, 164n24, 167n13
Glissant, Édouard, 148n13
global inequality, 8, 33, 53, 136, 142
globalization, viii, 5–8, 33, 36, 57, 60, 66, 68, 97, 98, 100, 121, 133–36, 138; and liberal hybridity, 32, 134–36, 138–40
Global North, 139
Global South, 139, 158n3
Godzich, Wlad, 121
good life, 8, 10, 32, 36, 127, 133–36, 142, 151n20
Granger, Stewart, 66, 162n17
Great Wyrley Outrages, 104, 106, 131, 170n10
Griffiths, Gareth, 147n10
Grosz, Elizabeth, 150n18
Guattari, Félix, 99
Guha, Ranajit, 62, 63
Gunew, Sneja, 146n5

Haidt, J., C. McCauley, and P. Rozin, 156n53
Haining, Peter, 169n4
half-caste(s), 48, 65, 74, 79, 86, 100, 107, 114–16, 118, 120, 121, 157n59, 162n17, 170n10
Hardt, Michael, 98, 147n9
Hawes, Christopher, 159n3
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 6, 99, 113, 159n8
Hindu(s), 13, 61, 62, 70, 161n15, 164n24, 173n5; as animal, 156n56; and caste, 158n61, 160n9; conversion, 115; customs and myths, 13, 69, 71; as exotic other in the American South, 34; and the nation, 39, 43
Hitler, Adolf, 83, 156n53, 174n9
Hodgson, Brian Houghton, 76
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 103
Holocaust, 10, 53, 83
Horkheimer, Max, 10, 11, 14, 22–25, 28, 32, 103, 105, 107, 128, 137, 140, 141, 153nn31–32, 163n22, 170n6, 170n8
Howes, David, 153n33
human: biology and plasticity, 3–9, 23, 106, 145n3, 151n22, 172n16; condition, 10, 140, 155n50; defining the, 22, 29, 31, 52, 105, 128, 117; evolution, 12, 23, 24, 30, 133, 154n38, 154n44, 165n27, 168n16. See also animal(s): human relationship with; plastic(ity); technology: and human subject formation
hybridity: and Anglo-Indians, 158n3; James Baldwin on, 148n12; and blackness, 34; and class, viii, 35, 39; colonial, 2, 18, 23, 33, 39, 64, 121, 133, 147n10, 148n12; and culture, 42, 62–64, 74, 75, 136, 148n13; and globalization, 5, 74, 89, 121, 133, 136, 147n11; and language, 5, 55, 99, 146n9, 147n10, 159n4; and plasticity, viii, 2–6, 9–11, 18, 32, 33, 43, 133, 141, 150n17; recombinant, 136; and sex, 3, 19, 128; unclaimed, 158n3. See also biological hybridity; plastic(ity); racial hybrid(ity)
hygiene, 70, 71, 85, 172n2

ideology, 4, 7, 36, 46, 50, 68, 100, 113, 122, 135, 151n24, 153n33, 161n14
imperial modernity, viii, 2–4, 6, 7, 11, 16, 18, 20, 29, 32, 36, 41, 42, 44, 55, 81, 100, 113, 120, 129, 132–34, 139, 151n24, 160n12, 164n25, 166n4. See also capital(ism)
incarnate moment(s), 3, 4, 7–11, 14, 19, 27, 56, 105, 114, 134
India: and blackness, 33, 34, 41–42; great civilization of, 24, 33, 35, 39, 40, 41; politics of hybridity in, 33–35; variety of populations in, 24, 34–35, 37. See also Aryan
intercultural contact, 3, 5, 9, 10, 27, 33, 44, 143
Islam: anti-Muslim rhetoric, 37; and anxiety about identity, 43; and call to prayer, 75, 162n19; Islamic neighbor, 19, 25; and the partition of India, 62; and socialism, 52. See also Muslim(s)

Jalianwala Bagh massacre, 78
James, William, 8, 149n15, 155n48
Jameson, Fredric, 135, 136, 152n29
JanMohamed, Abdul, 146n9
Jann, Rosemary, 168n1, 169n5
Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva, 159n6
jazz, 93
Jews, 40, 53, 119, 156n53; Jewish diaspora, 65
Judson, Olivia, 154n42, 172n16
jungle(s), 27, 55, 56, 78, 97, 139, 160n13, 163n21; new jungles of modernity, 49, 131

Kant, Immanuel, 28, 29, 53, 87, 88, 140, 141, 156n53, 163n23
Kapila, Shuchi, 157n60
Kaplan, Jonathan Michael, 152n27
Khoobsurat, 162n18
Kipling, Rudyard, 169n3, 170n7
Kirby, Vicky, 145n3, 150n18
Kolb, Bryan, 154n43
Kraidy, Marwan, 6, 74, 136, 147n11
Kunzru, Hari, 80, 85, 96, 99; The Impressionist, 3, 4, 27, 36, 61–101

Lacan, Jacques, 18, 25, 147n10
Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 159n3, 165n1
Lakoff, George, 149n15
language: as bodily production, vii, 3, 77, 146; and civilization, 76, 108; and culture, 65; denigration of native languages, 14, 16; English language and colonialism, 49, 145n1, 166n7; as human attribute, 52, 56; legacy of English language in India, 162n19; linguistic diversity in India, 35; and national identity, 56, 61, 62, 65, 77; as racial essence, 152n25; and religion, 80; shared roots of Indo-Aryan languages, 40, 71, 159n8
Leder, Drew, 154n36
leibhafte moment, 3, 10, 11, 134. See also incarnate moments
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 152n25, 154n44
Lewontin, R. C., 150n19
liberal education, 38, 44, 47, 49, 59, 124, 162n19
Lionnet, Françoise, 148n13
Lippit, Akira, 153n32
Lloyd, David, 151n24
Loichot, Valérie, 148n13
Lopez, Barry, 165n27
Lycett, Andrew, 106

Macaulay, Thomas, vii, 2, 35, 39, 44, 145n1, 162n19; birthday celebrations in India, 162n19
Malabou, Catherine, 6, 149n14, 173n7
Malebranch, Nicolas, 149n15
Mampilly, Zachariah Cherian, 159n6
manners, 65, 72, 105, 145, 166n7; of dining, 13, 54–55; good, 53, 54, 73, 74, 80, 96, 145n1, 166n7; of the other, 26, 35
Manto, Saadat Hasan, 61–63, 65
Marcuse, Herbert, 26
Martin, J. R., 40, 87
Masters, John: Bhowani Junction, 66, 162n17; film adaptation starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger, 162n17
Mauss, Marcel, 1, 13, 24, 37, 55, 60, 154n40, 154n45, 155n51
Mead, George Herbert, 147n10
Memmi, Albert, 138, 155n47, 155n50
Menninghaus, Winfried, 156n53
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 10, 14, 152n30
métissage, 148n13
Mijares, Loretta, 159n4
Mill, James, 138, 159n8, 168n15, 173n5
Miller, Alain, 25, 26, 111
mimicry, 1–5, 7, 10–12, 14, 17–23, 25, 31–35, 39, 41, 46, 64, 67, 68, 79, 84, 120, 121, 123–24, 127, 136, 145n2, 146n9, 147n10, 148n12, 154n40, 163n20; and bioplasticity, 2, 3, 10, 11; of death, 31, 32, 127, 173n6; as defensive and offensive warfare, 21; exceptionalist logic of, 121, 123–25, 130, 131, 172n16; as menace, 11, 17, 18; as mode of biological subject formation, 3, 10, 12, 20, 67; as mode of learning, 12, 17; and muscle memory, 13, 135; and passing, 14; and reward, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 49, 68, 77, 123, 124, 125, 130, 131, 135; and sclerosis of human life, 11, 31, 32
“Minute on Indian Education,” vii, 2, 35, 44, 145n1, 162–63n19; minute-made 2, 21, 60; minutemen, vii, 44–46
miscegenation, 26, 71, 118, 128, 166n4
Mitchell, W. J. T., 151n24
Mitter, Partha, 160n12
Morton, Samuel, 80
Müller, Max, 39
muscle(s): in Fanon, 16, 17, 36, 59, 137, 173n6; memory, 13, 16, 17, 127, 135; musculature, 7, 27, 36, 59, 60, 129; training of, 3, 19, 20, 68, 69
Muslim(s), 13, 37, 39, 42, 43, 61–63, 115, 159n6

Naidis, Mark, 166n6
Naipaul, V. S., 161n15
Nair, Rukmini Bhaya, 38, 158n3
nationalism, 21, 37–39, 43, 46, 47, 49–51, 55, 56, 59–68, 136, 138, 139, 158n1, 158n3, 159n4, 165n1, 167n13, 173n6
nature, human relationship with, 5, 22–26, 28, 30, 31, 50, 60, 105, 106, 112, 113, 126, 128, 137, 139, 145n3, 152n28, 153n36, 163n23, 170n6, 171n11, 172n16
nature/culture divide, 2, 4, 105, 108, 145n3
Negri, Antonio, 99, 147n9
Negro: and aboriginals in India, 41; and biology, 29; and emotion, 29, 30, 94; as hybrid, 148n12; line between “Hindoo” and, 34; morphology and histology, 19, and smell, 163n23; well-formed “negro gentleman,” 122
neoliberal(ism), 32, 36, 37, 148n13
neurobiology, 7, 8, 17, 20, 77, 149n15, 151n23, 154n43, 168n15, 173n7
neuropsychology, 12, 21, 33, 154n38
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 153n36, 156n53

object-oriented postcolonial studies, 32, 135
Oken, Lorenz, 117
Oriental(ism), 29, 75, 96, 101, 104, 106, 108–11, 115, 170n7
Orwell, George, 172n15

Pallasmaa, Juhani, 149n15
Pankhurst, Richard, 159n6
Parry, Benita, 146n9
Parsi(s), 13, 39, 104, 114–16, 118, 119, 122, 124, 125, 130, 171n14
partition of India, 61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 167n8
Pascoe, Peggy, 152n25
passing, 14, 21, 34, 61, 67, 68, 80, 84, 86, 87, 123, 124, 130–31, 150n17, 157n58; and accents, 76–80, 84, 85; the smell test, 85; the visual test, 77–79, 125, 129
performance: and mimicry, 1, 3, 11, 97, 105; physiological dimensions of, 3, 11, 16, 166n5. See also form
pigmentocracy, 42
plastic(ity), viii, 1–8, 11, 15, 20, 36, 41, 42, 106, 133–35, 138, 139–42, 150n17, 154n43, 155n48, 173n7. See also mimicry
postanimal aesthetics and technology, 21–23, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35, 45, 46, 50, 57, 105, 112, 117, 128, 140
postcolonial biology, viii, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 33, 34, 36, 133; and bourgeois coldness, 30–32, 105, 140; and manipulation of plastic body-mind, viii, 3–8, 11, 20, 36, 42, 50, 106, 131, 133–35, 138–40; as utopian desire for the good life, 8, 142
Prabhu, Anjali, 148n13
Pratt, Mary Louise, 153n33
prejudice, 8, 15, 16, 18–20, 22, 24, 42, 44, 53, 65, 95, 104, 106, 114, 117, 119–22, 124–26, 128, 135, 136, 156n53, 160n11, 160n13, 161n15, 170n10. See also class; racism; women

race, 2–5, 8–11, 14–17, 19, 20, 22, 28–30, 32–37, 39–48, 58, 62–69, 76, 77, 80–84, 87, 88, 90, 91, 95, 100, 106–9, 111, 114, 116–27, 130, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138, 144, 147n10, 148n13, 151n24, 152nn25–28, 153n33, 154nn44–45, 155n52, 160nn10–11, 160n13, 161nn14–15, 163n20, 166n4, 166n6, 167n11, 167n13, 170n7, 171n10
racial hybrid(ity), 4, 33, 34, 37, 47, 64, 66, 68, 76, 88, 106, 120, 145n2, 158–59n3, 159n4
racism, 4, 10, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22, 25, 36, 44, 46, 125, 133, 142, 148n13, 151n24, 152nn25–26, 152n28, 155n50, 161n15, 172n1
Ramachandran, V. S., 154n38
redemption, 111, 116, 125, 131, 132, 137, 141
Redmond, Dennis, 146n7
Regnault, Félix, 154n45
Risinger, D. Michael, 170n9
Roberts, Celia, 151n20
Roberts, D. F., 6
Rony, Fatimah, 60
Roy, Parama, 7, 17, 63
Roy, W. T., 166n6
Rozin, P., 156n53
Rushdie, Salman, 1, 2, 4, 27, 37, 39, 42–45, 47, 50, 51, 57–59, 89, 145n1, 158n1, 159n4, 161n14, 163n20, 165n25, 171n14; Midnight’s Children, 4, 23, 27, 32, 36–39, 42–44, 47–51, 53, 54, 56–58, 60, 135, 157n60, 159n4, 163nn20–21, 164n24, 165n25; The Moor’s Last Sigh, 37, 44, 58, 145, 161; The Satanic Verses, 1, 2, 45, 46, 89, 90, 165n25

Said, Edward, 96
savage(s), savagery, 53, 56, 60, 81, 91, 92, 108, 109, 112, 141, 153n33, 154n45, 171n11
Scarry, Elaine, 146n6
Schiller, Friedrich, 171n11
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 39, 159n8
Scott, Darieck, 16
Sealy, I. Allan, The Trotter-Nama, 67, 167n9
Sen, Keshab Chandra, 39, 161n15
Sen, Sudipta, 159n6
Senghor, Leopold, 29, 30
senses: devaluation of, 29, 31, 149n15; feminization of, 11, 171n11; hierarchy of, 53, 117, 137, 171n11; as historical, 153n31, 155n49, 156n55, 171n11, 173n5; primacy of visualism in Western culture, 117, 153n33, 156n55, 171n11; and racism, 6, 10, 16, 19, 22, 28, 92, 105, 117, 153n33; recalibration of, 16, 118, 149; repression of, 23, 25, 26, 139, 156n54; as source of knowledge, 9, 118, 149n15, 151n23; and suffering, 56; training of, 13, 26, 53, 92, 117; as triggers of prejudice, 19, 120, 155n47
Servan, Joseph Michel Antoine, 20
sex, sexual: and hybridity, 3, 19, 69, 70, 75, 82; and race, 14, 16, 30, 69, 107, 128, 130, 164n24, 166n4, 168n17; repression, 26, 27, 70, 77, 78, 82, 83, 92, 107, 116, 117, 128–30; and smell, 53, 91–92
Sherlock Holmes, 103, 104, 106, 119, 120, 168n1, 169nn4–5
Shih, Shu-Mei, 148n13
Shohat, Ella, 146n9
Shope, Bradley, 166n5
Sidhwa, Bapsi, 171n14
Sikirov, B. A., 165n27
Simmel, Georg, 149n15
Sinha, Jadunath, 156n53
slavery, 16, 74, 122, 151n24, 152n24, 155n46, 159n6; and slave trade, 159n9
smell, 53, 72, 84, 85, 87, 91, 92, 117, 119, 120, 126, 156n54, 163nn22–23, 171n11; and prejudice, 19, 24, 26, 53, 61, 68, 72, 80, 83, 84, 88, 92, 126, 153n33, 155n47, 156n53, 172n15
Smith, Andrew, 148n13
Sollors, Werner, 107
Spillers, Hortense, 155n46
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 38, 147n11, 156n56
Spurr, David, 153n33
Stark, Herbert A., 159n3, 167n13
Stocking, George, 152n25
suffering, viii, 71, 89, 94, 131, 132, 140; and sclerosed subjectivity, 30, 31, 140; and sensation, 56, 134, 139
Sussman, Herbert, 129

taste, 12, 34, 35, 52, 91, 108, 117, 153n33, 163n23, 166n5, 171n11; differential politics of, 34, 35, 52, 55, 131, 151n24, 156n54; English, vii, 2, 39, 45, 166n7; and mimicry, 12, 23, 33; taste transfer, 6, 23, 33
Taussig, Michael, 25
technology: of conquest, 97; and the human body, 69, 127, 129, 135, 136, 173n3, 174n8; and human subject formation, 6, 7, 21–23, 28, 34, 35, 52, 56, 127; native, 14. See also postanimal aesthetics and technology
Thatcher, Margaret, 54
Thind, Bhagat Singh, 160n9
Tiffin, Helen, 147n10
Trautmann, Thomas R., 39, 41

utopia, 8, 98–99, 134, 137–38; utopian corporeality, 109, 135, 109

Viswanathan, Gauri, 115
Visweswaran, Kamala, 152n26

Walcott, Derek, 64
Weltbürgertum, 158n3
Western, Westernization, 16, 18, 24, 33, 46, 55, 60, 91, 93, 100, 136, 141, 145n2, 153n33, 156n54, 156n56, 158n61, 164n24, 166n5, 167n9, 173n5
white(s), whiteness, 15, 17, 19, 21, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 39, 41–44, 48, 58, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, 84, 85, 90, 94–97, 107, 116, 123–24, 128, 137, 145n1, 157n58, 158n62, 160n9, 162n17, 164n24, 167n10, 168n17, 170n9, 171n13
Wilson, Elizabeth, 150n18
Winfrey, Oprah, 55
women: devaluation of, 28, 40, 157n58; prejudice against, 11, 30, 76; sexualization of, 162n17, 164n24, 168n17

Yeats, William Butler, 5
yoga, 60, 136, 165n26
Young, Robert J. C., 9, 113, 146n9, 147n10, 171n12
Young, Robert M., 147n10
Younger, Coralie, 65, 159n5, 167n10
Yule, Henry, 48

Žižek, Slavoj, 25, 26, 68, 103, 147n9, 150n17, 173n4
zoon politikon, 27, 28

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