Empire and Nation - Selected Essays

Informationen zum Autor Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences! Calcutta! and professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His books include The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World! A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism! and The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Nivedita Menon is professor of political theory at the School of International Studies! Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Recovering Subversion and editor of Gender and Politics in India. Klappentext Includes bibliographical references and index. Zusammenfassung Includes bibliographical references and index. Inhaltsverzeichnis Partial Table of Contents: Part I: Empire and Nation * "Whose Imagined Community?" * "History and the Nationalization of Hinduism" * "The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree" * "Of Diaries! Delirium! and Discourse" * "The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question" * "Our Modernity * Beyond the Nation? Or Within?" * Part II: Democracy * "Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death" * "Secularism and Toleration" * "Satanic of the Surrender of the Modern?" * "Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois at last?" Part III: Capital and Community * "Community in the East" * "A Response to 'Taylor's Modes of Civil Society'" * "A Brief History of Subaltern Studies" * "On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal" * "The Nation in Heterogeneous Times"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Partha Chatterjee, Chatterjee Partha
• Con la collaborazione di: Nivedita Menon (Introduzione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.05.2010
• EAN: 9780231152211
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15221-1
• Pagine: 384
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Politics & government, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, Essays; nationalism