Acknowledgements * Note on Transcription and Transliteration * Introduction * Who Is a Hindu, Who Is a Muslim? a Brief Historical Survey * Dharma: The Law and the Other * Caste and Sect: Redefining the People * There Is No Hindu, There Is No 'Musalman': Standing on the Threshold * Alliances: Protecting, Healing and Being the Other * Sharing Sacred Time and Space * Borrowing: How to Bridge the Gulf * Liminality: Jannus Bifrons, the Guardians of the Threshold * Creating Orthodoxies * The Myth of the Disputed Body: 'Sanskritisation' and 'Ashrafisation' * Religion and the State: The Role of Local Kingdoms in the Decline of Mughal Rule * Inventing Hinduism: Orientalists and Anglicists During British Rule * Census Reports and Gazeteers: The Creation of Religious Categories * Laying the Foundation of a Boundary Wall: Separate Laws and Electorates * Reformists and Revivalists: Defining Islam and Hinduism * Nation and Religion (1920-2000) * The Concepts of Hindu Nation: Who Is a Hindu? * Towards an Islamic Nation: Who Is a Muslim? * Partition and Its Consequence: The Walled-Up People * The Law and the State * Reinventing History and Traditions * Dress Codes and Colour Symbols: Religion Standardised * Conclusion: The Metaphor of the Hidden Pir * Bibliography * Index/Glossary.