Partha Chatterjee (scholar)

Partha Chatterjee (born 1947) is an Indian scholar belonging to the subaltern studies and postcolonial schools. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar, with special emphasis on political science, anthropology and history. Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009^[1] for his contributions to academia.

Education

He completed his BA (Hons.) in Political Science at Presidency College, Calcutta and Ph.D. in the same subject at the University of Rochester.

Career

He was the Professor of Political Science and served as a Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and is currently a Professor (Honourary) of the CSSSC and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Columbia University in New York. He was a Founder-Member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. He is a Joint-Editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta. In addition to numerous books in English, he has published books of essays in Bengali.

Publications

Books

• 1986. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London: Zed Books.
• 1993. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories". Princeton University Press.
• 1995. Texts of Power. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press.
• 1997. A Possible India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• 1997. The Present History of West Bengal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• 2003. A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal. Princeton University Press.
• 2004. The Politics of the Governed: Popular Politics in Most of the World, Columbia University Press.
• 2010. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005, Columbia University Press.
• 2011. Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy, Columbia University Press
• 2012. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power, Princeton University Press.

See also

• Vivek Chibber

References

External links

• Biography of Partha Chatterjee on Columbia University's faculty page
• Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
• The Two Hats of Partha Chatterjee: An Interview
• Partha Chatterjee: Colonialism, History and Civil Society
• Towards a Postcolonial Modernity - Asiasource Interview with Partha Chatterjee