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  • For a Just Republic

    The People of India and the State

    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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Nation and Its Fragments

    Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • I Am the People

    Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

    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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • I Am the People

    Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

    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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Princely Impostor?

    The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

    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 ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Empire and Nation

    Selected Essays

    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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Lineages of Political Society

    Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak

    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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Black Hole of Empire

    History of a Global Practice of Power

    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. ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • Through my looking glass

    Close Encounters of a personal kind

    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 ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Colonialismo, modernidade e política

    Esta é uma compilação de textos de autoria do indiano Partha Chaterjee, responsável pela publicação de dezenas de obras engajadas em temas políticos. Grande parte do livro fala de problemas, questões e situações globais tendo como exemplo episódios que marcaram a história da Índia no decorrer dos séculos. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD