Affective CommunitiesIf I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forsters epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the friend stands as a metaphor for dissident cross cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti imperialism. Focusing on