Sanjay Srivastava is an anthropologist and British Academy Global Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. He is also Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR.

'In Masculinity, Consumerism, and the Post-national Indian City Sanjay the author provides a critically incisive and deeply perceptive analysis of contemporary India's complex urban landscape and the way in which cultural formations of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape and are shaped by this landscape. As one of the most insightful and rigorously critical sociologists studying India today, Srivastava provides an exceptionally powerful, multi-dimensional analysis of how embodied values, anxieties and contradictions are manifest in the city and how power relations animate post-national masculinity. One of the great strengths of this book is its powerful synthesis of perspectives on gender, politics and rapid urban expansion ranging from formal governance, party politics and economic policy to practices of consumption and everyday life on the streets.' Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Masculinity, Modernity, Urbanity; 2. Nationalism, Masculinity and the City; 3. Dislocated Masculinities and the Unofficial City; 4. Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and 'Indian Traditions' in the Contemporary Hindi 'Detective' Novel; 5. Fragmentary Pleasures: Masculinity, Urban Spaces and the Commodity Politics of 'Religious Fundamentalists'; 6. Technotopias: Masculinity, Women, the City and the Post-national Condition; 7. Conclusion: Masculine Body Politics; Bibliography; Index.

Sanjay Srivastava is an anthropologist and British Academy Global Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. He is also Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR.

'In Masculinity, Consumerism, and the Post-national Indian City Sanjay the author provides a critically incisive and deeply perceptive analysis of contemporary India's complex urban landscape and the way in which cultural formations of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape and are shaped by this landscape. As one of the most insightful and rigorously critical sociologists studying India today, Srivastava provides an exceptionally powerful, multi-dimensional analysis of how embodied values, anxieties and contradictions are manifest in the city and how power relations animate post-national masculinity. One of the great strengths of this book is its powerful synthesis of perspectives on gender, politics and rapid urban expansion ranging from formal governance, party politics and economic policy to practices of consumption and everyday life on the streets.' Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Masculinity, Modernity, Urbanity; 2. Nationalism, Masculinity and the City; 3. Dislocated Masculinities and the Unofficial City; 4. Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and 'Indian Traditions' in the Contemporary Hindi 'Detective' Novel; 5. Fragmentary Pleasures: Masculinity, Urban Spaces and the Commodity Politics of 'Religious Fundamentalists'; 6. Technotopias: Masculinity, Women, the City and the Post-national Condition; 7. Conclusion: Masculine Body Politics; Bibliography; Index.