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Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World A Derivative Discourse? Partha Chatterjee |
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A contemporary classic—now back in print. "Nationalist Thought is by far the best theoretical work on postcolonial nationalism to appear in ages. Examining the intellectual production of three dominant natsents [national subject-agents] within the Indian nationalist movement, Chatterjee, a leading member of the now famous Subaltern Studies collective, has a new thesis about the texture of anticolonial nationalist thought. Essentially, the book does two things: accounts for the contradiction at the heart of natsent thinking within a colonial-capitalist context; and explains why anticolonial nationalism typically has been reformist, not revolutionary. It illuminates many contexts, not just the Indian. Fascinating and suggestive." —Qadri Ismail, The Village Voice "This is a creative contribution in Chatterjee's interpretation of Indian nationalism." —Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and has held visiting appointments at St. Anthony's College in Oxford, the Australian National University in Canberra, the New School for Social Research in New York, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993), and editor of Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (1993). 190 pages | 1993 |
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