Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Tradition, Rationality & Social Consciousness; Authority, State & the Civilizing Mission: A Fertile Region at the Afghan Border; A Subculture of Punjabi Public Men: Protestant Evangelicalism & Punjabi Voluntary Movements; Tradition, Rationality & Reform: Criticising Tradition & Society; Strengthening Identity Through Language, History & Patriarchy: Vernacular Language Politics; Community, Government & Social Consciousness: Comparative Moral Polemics; Conclusion: Moral Languages Over Time & Seas: Secularization & Cultural Dialogue; Moral Languages in Diaspora & World History; Key Dates; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Bob van der Linden (Ph.D., Amsterdam University, 2004) is a modern South Asia historian. He has recently published on the relationship between music and empire in Britain and India