Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial CultureEnlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the Jewish question for the first time to a broader discussion one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India. Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls the exemplary crisis of minority Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this