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For a Just Republic

The People of India and the State

by Partha Chatterjee ...

From the forging of a constitution for the postindependence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions, languages, and cultures, calling into question any unitary identity.In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five ... Read more

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From the forging of a constitution for the postindependence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions, languages, and cultures, calling into question any unitary identity.In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five
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The Politics of the Governed

Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

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Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the
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I Am the People

Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Series series Ruth Benedict Book Series
The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.”To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and ... Read more

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The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.”To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and
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The Small Voice of History

Collected Essays

by Ranajit Guha ...

Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical Marxism that ran parallel to the work of British and French ... Read more

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Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical Marxism that ran parallel to the work of British and French
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Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume I

by John Marriott, Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, Partha Chatterjee ...

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area. ... Read more

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Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.
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The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely new way of telling the history of Indian nationalism. Severely criticizing the doctrines of both Hindu ... Read more

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Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely new way of telling the history of Indian nationalism. Severely criticizing the doctrines of both Hindu
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A Princely Impostor?

The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

by Partha Chatterjee ...

In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as ... Read more

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In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as
... Read more
I Am the People

Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Series series Ruth Benedict Book Series
The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.”To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and ... Read more

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The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.”To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and
... Read more
Through my looking glass

Close Encounters of a personal kind

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Partha never worked behind a desk and from 9 to 5. He started his career in the exotic tea gardens of Northeast India and continued his career in luxury hotels around the country. During his life’s journey, he met various interesting people, and he has been in unique situations. These stories make up this beautiful collection.”There are celebrated movies and books on the people he encountered like ... Read more

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Partha never worked behind a desk and from 9 to 5. He started his career in the exotic tea gardens of Northeast India and continued his career in luxury hotels around the country. During his life’s journey, he met various interesting people, and he has been in unique situations. These stories make up this beautiful collection.”There are celebrated movies and books on the people he encountered like
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The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

by Vivek Chibber, Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as “without any doubt … a bomb,” and “the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important ... Read more

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Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was hailed on publication as “without any doubt … a bomb,” and “the most substantive effort to dismantle the field through historical reasoning published to date.” It immediately unleashed one of the most important
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Lineages of Political Society

Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

by Partha Chatterjee ...

Series series Cultures of History
Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political theory to ask, Can ... Read more

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Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political theory to ask, Can
... Read more
The Black Hole of Empire

History of a Global Practice of Power

by Partha Chatterjee ...

When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. ... Read more

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When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects.
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