Partha Chatterjee (scholar)

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Partha Chatterjee (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist.{{cite web|title=Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/chatterjee.html|website=Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies|publisher=www.columbia.edu|access-date=5 June 2017|language=en}} He was the director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta from 1997 to 2007 and continues as an honorary professor of political science. He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/index.html|title=Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize|publisher=Fukuoka|access-date=19 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230451/http://www.asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/index.html|archive-date=30 December 2017|url-status=dead}}

Education

He completed a BA (1967) and an M.A (1970) in political science from Presidency College, Calcutta and Calcutta University respectively. He completed his Ph.D. (1972) in international relations from the University of Rochester.{{cite web|last1=Wheeler|first1=William|title=Presidential Lectures: Partha Chatterjee|url=https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/chatterjee/|website=prelectur.stanford.edu|access-date=5 June 2017}}

Career

He was the professor of political science and served as a director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta from 1997 to 2007. He is currently a professor (honorary) of the CSSSC and professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University in New York.{{cite web|title=Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta|url=http://www.cssscal.org/partha_chatterjee_contact.html|website=www.cssscal.org|access-date=5 June 2017|archive-date=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611195051/http://www.cssscal.org/partha_chatterjee_contact.html|url-status=dead}} He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

Publications

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1975. Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics, Macmillan.
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.

Other Publications

1988. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

References

External links

[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/chatterjee/faculty.html Biography of Partha Chatterjee on Columbia University's faculty page]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100605151245/http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/committee/chatterjee_partha/ Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081120022905/http://www.cul-studies.com/english/interview/200512/3226.html The Two Hats of Partha Chatterjee: An Interview]
[https://archive.today/20030728201514/http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/chatterjee/chatterjeeov.html Partha Chatterjee: Colonialism, History and Civil Society]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080303091604/http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/chatterjee.cfm] Towards a Postcolonial Modernity - Asiasource Interview with Partha Chatterjee

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