Subaltern Studies, Vol. 11: Community, Gender and Violence

by Partha Chatterjee, Pradeep Jeganathan

This work questions the role of women and the nation, especially among minorities. It examines many topics such as Tamil nationalism, the new woman in Indian cinema, women and minorities in the context of law and the issue of violence.

346 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2001

About the author

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.”