| Friends, Brothers, and Informants |
| Acknowledgments |
| Note on Transliteration |
 | Introduction |
 | Part One |
| • | 1. Physical and Cultural Shocks |
| • | 2. The City as Object |
| • | 3. The Library and Its Surroundings |
| • | 4. Unknown Gods and Life-Styles |
| • | 5. Further Pursuit of Informants: The Metalworkers |
| Part Two |
| • | 6. A Shift in Technique |
| • | 7. Woodworkers |
| • | 8. Weavers |
| • | 9. Categories and Units of Observation |
| • | 10. Among the Police and Administration |
| • | 11. The Researcher at Home |
| • | 12. Death |
| Part Three |
| • | 13. My Research Assistant |
| • | 14. Inside a Police Station |
| • | 15. Abdul Jabbar |
| • | 16. Questions of Gender |
| • | 17. Rapacity and Recovery |
| • | 18. Progress and Its Limitations |
| • | 19. The Pleasures of the Body |
| • | 20. Holi Saturnalia |
| Part Four |
| • | 21. A Break from Banaras |
| • | 22. Ethnography in the Archives |
| • | 23. Patterns of Selectivity |
| • | 24. Departure |
| Glossary |