Presents Catherine Hall's reply to the critics of her book Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. Comments on Madhavi Kale's book on the genealogy of the category of indentured labor in the post-Emancipation period; Naturalization of Englishness as a privileged and unexamined identity; Reason for using the narrative form in Hall's book.;
