Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; PART I "Two circles of equal size"; 1 "An impossible factor": Ali's autobiographical fragment; 2 Muslim responses in colonial India; 3 Questions of community; PART II Malabar contra memory; 4 Re-figuring the fanatic: Malabar, 1836-1922; 5 Memoirs of the Malabar rebellion; PART III Literary nationalism in Malayalam; 6 "Higuita" and the politics of representation; 7 An-other: Indulekha and The Jewel of Malabar; 8 All too in-human: Chemmeen and Naalukettu; Epilogue; References; Index