en Partha Chatterjee (scholar)

Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee
Born	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.^[2] 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.^[3] He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.^[2]

Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.^[4]

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.^[1]^[5]

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.^[3] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.^[2]

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.

^ ^a ^b Chatterjee, Partha. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee". Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b "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.