Empire and nation : selected essays
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Empire and nation : selected essays
Columbia University Press, c2010
- : pbk
- : cloth
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an area of scholarship he continues to develop. In this collection, English-speaking readers are finally able to experience the breadth and substance of Chatterjee's wide-ranging thought. His provocative essays examine the phenomenon of postcolonial democracy and establish the parameters for research in subaltern politics. They include an early engagement with agrarian politics and Chatterjee's brilliant book reviews and journalism. Selections include one never-before-published essay, "A Tribute to the Master," which considers through a mock retelling of an episode from the classic Sanskrit epic, The Mahabharata, a deep dilemma in the study of postcolonial history, and several Bengali essays, now translated into English for the first time. An introduction by Nivedita Menon adds necessary context and depth, critiquing Chatterjee's ideas and their influence on contemporary political thought.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction, by Nivedita Menon Part I: Empire and Nation 1. Whose Imagined Community? (1991) 2. The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse (1987) 3. History and the Nationalization of Hinduism (1991) 4. The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree (1985) 5. Of Diaries, Delirium, and Discourse (1996) 6. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1989) 7. Our Modernity (1994) 8. A Tribute to the Master (2001) 9. Those Fond Memories of the Raj (2005) 10. Beyond the Nation? Or Within? (1997) Part II: Democracy 11. Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death (2001) 12. Secularism and Toleration (1994) 13. Satanic? Or the Surrender of the Modern? (1988) 14. Development Planning and the Indian State (1994) 15. We Have Heard This Before (1990) Part III: Capital and Community 16. A Response to Taylor's 'Modes of Civil Society' (1990) 17. A Brief History of Subaltern Studies (1998) 18. The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal, 1920-1947 (1986) 19. On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal (1999) Index
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