Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.
Introduction: sensitive subjects: producing the nation at school in western India -- Singing the nation into existence: devotion, patriotism, secularism -- Producing "good citizens": languages, bodies, emotions -- Producing Mother-India at school: passions of intimacy and national love -- Historiography, masculinity, locality: passions of regional belonging -- From becoming to being Muslim: Urdu education, affects of belonging, and the Indian nation -- Constructing new citizens in military schools: gender, hybridity, and modernity in Maharashtra