Table of content:

PART 1: HINDUTVA; The Idea of a Hindu Nation; Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism; Hindutva Precedes Appeasement; URA: Hindutva and Hind Swaraj; Hindutva and Women; Hindutva and Dalits; Rediscovering National Icons; Integrating Sardar Patel; Appropriating Bhagat Singh; Co-opting Dr Ambedkar; Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay: Not Quite an Icon; Madan Mohan Malaviya: Early Hindu Nationalist; Understanding RSS and Fringe Elements; RSS and Nationalism; RSS and the Tricolour; The Myth of the Holy Cow; Cow Protection Movement; Gaurakshini Samitis Turn Senas; Raksha Dals, Then and Now; Majoritarianism and Nationalism; Nation from the Historical Lens; M S Golwalkar and Irfan Habib; Conflict and Conciliation: Bipan Chandra's World; Babur Nama; Gopal Gandhi's Dara Shukoh; Akbar as the New Age Aurangzeb; Revisiting Aurangzeb;

PART 2: MUSLIM IDENTITY; Being Muslim; I Am the 'Other'; The Other as the New Normal; The First Muslim; Extraordinary Tales of Muslim Women; Not Easy Being a Muslim; Muslims in Indian Cities; Muslims of Delhi and Jammu; Jamaat and Religion; Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind; A Muslim Leader Against Partition; Jamaat-e-Islami Hind; Tablighi Jamaat; Sufism: Is It Islam?; Aslam Parvaiz: One-man Movement; Jihad and Ijtihad; Fatwa on Terrorism; Islam and Practices; Triple Talaq and Khula; Women's Right to Divorce; A Woman Leads Friday Prayers. Muslim Women and Masjid; Night of the New Moon; Madrasas and Farhat Hashmi; Conversion and Reconversion; Not Being the Other; Noor Zaheer's Heresy on Hearsay; Of Peace and War; A Mockery of Satire;

PART 3: THE IDEA OF INDIA; Everybody an Immigrant; Innocent Acquitted, but How?; Once Framed for Terrorism, Now a Symbol of Nationalism; A Humanist Despite Being Called a Terrorist; Hashimpura: Chak De! India; Sir Mohammed Iqbal; Rearming Hinduism; Reality of Conversions; Uniform Civil Code; Age-old Glue: Commonalities in Faith; India for Indians.