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| Partha Chatterjee | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1947-11-05) 5 November 1947 (age 77) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Calcutta Calcutta University University of Rochester |
Partha Chatterjee (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist. 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.
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.
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 (honorary) 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.
Publications
- Books
- 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
- ^ Chatterjee, Partha. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee". Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta". www.cssscal.org. Archived from the original on 11 June 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- "Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize". Fukuoka. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- Wheeler, William. "Presidential Lectures: Partha Chatterjee". prelectur.stanford.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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
- 1945 births
- Bengali Hindus
- 20th-century Bengalis
- 21st-century Bengalis
- Bengali historians
- Bengali writers
- Columbia University faculty
- Indian institute directors
- Postcolonial theorists
- Living people
- Scholars from Kolkata
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
- University of Rochester alumni
- West Bengal academics
- 20th-century Indian anthropologists
- Indian political scientists
- Indian political writers
- 20th-century Indian male writers
- 21st-century Indian male writers
- 20th-century Indian historians
- 21st-century Indian historians
- 20th-century Indian scholars
- 20th-century Indian writers
- 21st-century Indian writers
- People from West Bengal
- 21st-century Indian anthropologists