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Partha Chatterjee

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Calcutta, India

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https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/parth...

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History, Political Theory, Anthropology

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Partha Chatterjee is a political theorist and historian. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He divides his time between Columbia University and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, where he was the Director from 1997 to 2007. He is the author of more than twenty books, monographs and edited volumes and is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. He as awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize for 2009 for outstanding achievements in the field of Asian studies. He is also a poet, playwright, and actor. In the Mira Nair film The Namesake (2007), he played the role of “A Reformed Hindoo.”

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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,260 ratings · 120 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories 3.80 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Clay Cart 3.49 avg rating — 312 ratings — published -400 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse 3.90 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World 3.98 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Princely Impostor? The Kumar Of Bhawal And The Secret History Of Indian Nationalism 4.06 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today (Ruth Benedict Book Series) 3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Economics for Engineers 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Man Wandering: The Case that Shook a Country 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If one truly values the freedom and equality that democracy promises, then one cannot imprison it within the sanitized fortress of civil society.”
― Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

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“If one
truly values the freedom and equality that democracy promises, then one
cannot imprison it within the sanitized fortress of civil society.”
― Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

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“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.”
― Partha Chatterjee, A Princely Impostor? The Kumar Of Bhawal And The Secret History Of Indian Nationalism

tags: colonialism, erase, foolish, legacy, pretend

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