The Muslim self and the loss of sovereignty: individual and community before 1858 -- Forging a Muslim community: press, poetry and politics in the late nineteenth century -- Common languages, contested scripts, conflicted communities: shifting identities of Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi -- Muslims as a legal and political category: subjecthood in theory and practice -- Identity and sovereignty in Muslim consciousness: the khilafat crescent and the Indian charkha -- Contested sovereignty in the Punjab: the interplay of formal and informal politics -- Between region and nation: the missing centre -- At the crossroads of 'Pakistan': Muslim imaginings and territorial sovereignty -- Lost tracks to unity: confrontation, compromise and Civil War -- Epilogue: An unhealing wound: paradoxes of Muslim identity, sovereignty and citizenship -- Glossary.