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Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms xii Abbreviations xiii 1. Making the Past in a Global Present: Chennai’s New Heritage 1 Part 1. The Formal City and Its Pasts 2. Governing the Past: Chennai’s Histories 19 3. Memory, Mourning, and Politics 56 4. Modernity Remembered: Temples, Publicity, and Heritage 82 Part 2. Restructured Memories 5. Consuming the Past: Tourism’s Cultural Economies 121 6. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai 147 7. The Village as Vernacular Cosmopolis 179 8. Conclusion: “How Many Museums Can One Have?” 204 Notes 213 Bibliography 257 Index 271 Contents ...

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