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A chapter of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. It explores the involvement of Indian national culture with the crisis of Muslim identity, and the question of whether the Muslims constitute a minority. The author also discusses the Partition of India as an attempt to bring about not only the establishment of a Muslim nation-state but also the minoritization of Muslims.

Chapter 5 of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. The author clarifies the place of Urdu lyric in Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem and its relationship to the social horizon that is brought to a crisis in Partition. The author also explores the possibility that Faiz's love lyrics give expression to a self in partition, and that they make visible a dialectic of self and other.

Chapter 4 of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. It explores author Saadat Hasan Manto's relationship to the Progressive literary culture associated with the figure and influence of former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The author discusses the crisis of cultural difference at the community by translating the problem of Muslim difference into the problem of a minority culture and history.

Chapter 3 of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. It explores the relationship of Jawaharlal Nehru's book "Discovery of India" written during the period of internment of the nationalist leadership at Ahmednagar Fort in Maharshtra, India, and "Ghubar-e khatir" by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The author suggests ways to read these books as giving expression and form to the question of selfhood and identity.

Chapter 2 of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. It explores the consolidation of the emerging problematic of minority in a number of events and social and cultural sites worldwide in the third quarter of the 19th century. The author discusses England's relationship to its Indian colony as it is elaborated in a number of representative works of late imperial English literature.

Chapter 1 of the book "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" by Aamir R. Mufti is presented. It explores the certain elements of the literary and cultural history of the Jewish Question within a global frame in order to reopen the question of liberalism, secularization, and the crisis of minority. The author also discusses the mutual relations of these formations as a problematic of global dimensions and significance.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses an article on modern secularism, the meaning of the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India, and the crises that have encircled the attributes of Jewishness.

People who the author would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of the journal "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture" are mentioned.

The article offers tips on how to use the book and explains how the author translated and transliterated the various sections.