Partha Chatterjee (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian

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and

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. 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

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and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.

Education

He completed a BA (1967) and an M.A (1970) in political science from Presidency College, Calcutta and

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respectively. He completed his Ph.D. (1972) in international relations from the

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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

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and South Asian studies at

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. He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

Publications

;Books *1975. ''Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics'', Macmillan. *1986. ''Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World''. London:

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. *1993. ''The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories''.

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. *1995. ''Texts of Power''. Minneapolis

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. *1997. ''A Possible India''. New Delhi:

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. *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''.

. *2004. ''The Politics of the Governed: Popular Politics in Most of the World'',

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. *2010. ''Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005'',

. *2011. ''Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy'',

*2012. ''The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power'',

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

References

External links

Biography of Partha Chatterjee on Columbia University's faculty page

Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

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