Empire and Nation - Selected Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15220-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Partha

Weitere Mitwirkende

Menon, Nivedita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Partial Table of Contents: Part I: Empire and Nation · "Whose Imagined Community?" · "History and the Nationalization of Hinduism" · "The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree" · "Of Diaries, Delirium, and Discourse" · "The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question" · "Our Modernity · Beyond the Nation? Or Within?" · Part II: Democracy · "Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death" · "Secularism and Toleration" · "Satanic of the Surrender of the Modern?" · "Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois at last?" Part III: Capital and Community · "Community in the East" · "A Response to 'Taylor's Modes of Civil Society'" · "A Brief History of Subaltern Studies" · "On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal" · "The Nation in Heterogeneous Times"

Über Autor(innen)

Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His books include The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World, A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, and The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.

Nivedita Menon is professor of political theory at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Recovering Subversion and editor of Gender and Politics in India.