Public modernity in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Playing with modernity: the decolonization of Indian cricket / Arjun Appadurai -- Upon the subdominant: administering music on all-India radio / David Lelyveld -- The Indian princes as fantasy: palace hotels, palace museums, and palace on wheels / Barbara N. Ramusack -- Dining out in Bombay / Frank F. Conlon -- Consuming utopia: film watching in Tamil Nadu / Sara Dickey -- Melodrama and the negotiation of morality in mainstream Hindi film / Rosie Thomas -- Repositioning the body, practice, power, and self in an Indian martial art / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- Nation, economy, and tradition displayed: the Indian crafts museum, New Delhi / Paul Greenough