Notes
INTRODUCTION- On these particular national myths, see Christopher B. Krebs, A Most Dan-
gerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
(W. W. Norton: 2ou); Robert H. Morrissey, Charlemagne and France: A
Thousand Years of Mythology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003); Steph-
anie L. Barczewski, Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century
Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood (London: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 2000). Among others, I am indebted in my understandings of
origins and beginnings to Edward W. Said's Beginnings: Intention and
Method (New York: Basic Books, 1975) 1 pp. 27-43. I also draw upon the works
of Friedrich Nietzsche, Marc Bloch, and Michel Foucault on the question of
origins, and upon R. G. Collingwood, Carolyn Steedman, Joan W. Scott, and
Quentin Skinner on the issue of interpretation. - Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. [innah,
vol 1. (Lahore: S. M. Ashraf Publishers, 1947) 1 pp. 174-180. - M. S. Golwalkar, We or Our Nationhood Defined (Nagpur: P. V. Belwalkar,
1938) 1 p. 17. Though historically credited to M. S. Golwalkar, current schol-
arship registers the author of the pamphlet We or Our Nationhood Defined
as Ganesh Damodar Savarkar with Golwalkar's name appended to the pam-
phlet. See Jyotirmaya Sharma, Terrifying Vision: M. S. Golwalkar, the RSS,
and India (New Delhi: Viking, 2007), p. xix. - I remind..,us here of Bruno Latour's words on moderns and antimoderns
agreeing on the same narrative: "Look for the origins of the modern myths,
and you will almost always find them among those who claim to be coun-
tering modernism with the impenetrable barrier of the spirit, of emotion, the
subject, or the margins. In the effort to offer a supplement of soul to the
modern world, the one it has is taken away-the one it had, the one it was