Introduction -- What (Kind of) Independence? -- Caught in the Parallax: Partition Scholarship and the Unspeakable -- Production of Space: Identity, Singularity and Legitimacy -- Writing the Genre of the New: Constituting the Nation, Community and Universal Citizenship -- Overwriting Class: Backwardness and the Mature Citizen -- The Impossible Totality: Indian Citizenship and the Constitutive Split -- Conclusion.