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mark on this book. I thank her and Heather Hughes at Harvard Uni-
versity Press for their good cheer and support. I am also grateful to the
two anonymous readers whose critically astute feedback strengthened
this manuscript. Thanks also to David Emanuel, Deborah Grkhame-
Smith, and Derek Gottlieb for their editorial and indexical work-and
immense professionalism.
The generous intellectual gifts of all of these individuals go along
with gifts of love, friendship, and companionship that I received over
the course of the last two decades from Rajeev K. Kinra, Prithvi Datta
Chandra Shobhi, Blake T. Wentworth, Whitney M. Cox, Daisy Rock-
well, Sarah Neilson, Bulbul Tiwari, Doowan Lee, Kouslaa Kessler-Mata,
Edward Yazijian, Lisa Knight, Sonam Kachru, Jane Mikkleson, Katar-
~yna Pazucha, Alicia Czaplewski, Gerard Siarny, Antje Postema, Megan
Heffernan, David "Raver" Emanuel, Saud al-Zaid, A. Sean Pue, Salman
Hussain, Rachel Dwyer, Michael Dwyer, Madhuri Deshmukh, Nikhil
Rao, Veronika Fuechtner, Rajkamal Kahlon, Sergei Spetchinsky, Bani
Abdi, Maritta Schleyer, Daniel Pineu, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sarnath
Banerjee, Olly Akkerman, Saskia Schafer, Anubhuti Maurya, Sarover
Zaidi, Ananya Vajpeyi, Ali Raza, Bilal Tanweer, Afzal Khan, Aijaz
Ahmed, Sumayya Kassamali, Rebecca Goetz, Gaiutra Bahadur, Mana
Kia, Eric Beverley, Madiha Tahir, Aamir Naveed, Durba Mitra, Abeer
Hoque, Azeen Khan, Annie Ali Khan, Anand Vivek Taneja, Elizabeth
Angell, Abhishek Kaicker, Jonatharr Shainin, Amitava Kumar, Shahnaz
Rouse, Kaiama Glover, Kelly Josephs, and Alex Gil. My gratitude to
Kitty for her support over the years. Thank you to all, and to any.
My friend and colleague Dennis Tenen helped me begin and end
the writing of this book. We were joined by many writers between
December 2014 and December 2015. My thanks to Rojas, Young To-
bias, and Durba Mitra (DB), among others. The collective lunches at
Brownie's and the evening PST at Taqueria y Fonda la Mexicana were
instrumental on the hard days. Thanks to the many friends there.
This book is dedicated to my mother, Shaista Ahmed, in Lahore. She
sent her eighteen-year-old son to the United States for education and
has watched his life from a great distance. It is a testament to her love,
strength, and ethics. When I was turning seventeen, I had dearly wanted
denim jeans made by the American brand Jordache. She was unmoved
by my pleas to be as stylish as my friends at Punjab University. A few