Shail Mayaram is a Professor and Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India. She is the author of Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (Columbia University Press, 2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (Oxford University Press, 1997); and the co-author of Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanambhumi Movement and the Fear of Self (Oxford University Press, 1998).

• Prologue and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Reading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia Shail Mayaram Section I: Cosmopolitanism and the State 2. Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and “Other” Subjects Engin F. Isin 3. Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism Emily T. Yeh 4. Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionarism Aihwa Ong Section II: Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied 5. Impossible Cosmopolis: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi Yasmeen Arif 6. Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife “Little India,” Kuala Lumpur Yeoh Seng Guan 7. Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo John Lie Section III: Cosmopolitan Microprocesses 8. Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost Asef Bayat 9. Cosmopolitanism and the City: Interaction and Co-existence in Bukhara Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden and Vera Skvirskaja