Partha Chatterjee (scholar)

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]

Partha Chatterjee
Born	(1947-11-05) 5 November 1947 (age 77)[1] Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Education
Alma mater	Presidency College, Calcutta Calcutta University University of Rochester

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]

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 anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University in New York.^[3] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.^[2]

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.
• 2020. I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today, Columbia University Press.
• 2022. The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak, State University of New York Press.

In Edited Volumes

• CHATTERJEE, PARTHA. “On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal.” In Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia, edited by Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann, 112–28. Princeton University Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15r5dnf.9.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Two Poets and Death: On Civil and Political Society in the Non-Christian World.” In Questions of Modernity, edited by Timothy Mitchell, NED-New edition., 11:35–48. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsqrg.6.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political.” In Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, 82–100. Princeton University Press, 2005. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sdbh.8.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “WHOSE IMAGINED COMMUNITY?” In Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, edited by Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, 237–47. Edinburgh University Press, 2005. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrmwf.20.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Contradictions of Secularism.” In The Crisis of Secularism in India, edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 141–56. Duke University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hpmw8.11.
• CHATTERJEE, PARTHA. “Terrorism: State Sovereignty and Militant Politics in India.” In Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, edited by Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 240–62. Duke University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1134dkk.15.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “REFLECTIONS ON ‘CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK?’: SUBALTERN STUDIES AFTER SPIVAK.” In Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by ROSALIND C. MORRIS, 81–86. Columbia University Press, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/morr14384.6.

Other Publications

• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Classical Balance of Power Theory.” Journal of Peace Research 9, no. 1 (1972): 51–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/422972.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “From Balance of Power to Imperialism: Analysis of a System Change in International Politics: Summary.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 34 (1973): 261–261. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44138728.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “On the Rational Choice Theory of Limited Strategic War.” The Indian Journal of Political Science 34, no. 2 (1973): 157–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41854567.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Modern American Political Theory with Reference to Underdeveloped Nations.” Social Scientist 2, no. 12 (1974): 24–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/3516206.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Equilibrium Theory of Arms Races: Some Extensions.” Journal of Peace Research 11, no. 3 (1974): 203–11. http://www.jstor.org/stable/423019.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Equilibrium Theory of Arms Races: Reply to the Comments by F. E. Banks.” Journal of Peace Research 12, no. 3 (1975): 239–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/422552.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Bengal: Rise and Growth of a Nationality.” Social Scientist 4, no. 1 (1975): 67–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/3516391.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “In Birbhum after the Floods.” Economic and Political Weekly 13, no. 49 (1978): 2001–2. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4367161.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Problems of a Marxist Political Theory: Considerations on Colletti.” Economic and Political Weekly 16, no. 42/43 (1981): PE2–8. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4370358.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Peasants, Politics and Historiography: A Response.” Social Scientist 11, no. 5 (1983): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/3517104.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Modes of Power: Some Clarifications.” Social Scientist 13, no. 2 (1985): 53–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/3520191.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Transferring a Political Theory: Early Nationalist Thought in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 21, no. 3 (1986): 120–28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4375224.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal 1920-1947.” Past & Present, no. 110 (1986): 169–204. http://www.jstor.org/stable/650652.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “On Gramsci’s ‘Fundamental Mistake.’” Economic and Political Weekly 23, no. 5 (1988): PE24–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4378045.
• 1988. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “For an Indian History of Peasant Struggle.” Social Scientist 16, no. 11 (1988): 3–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/3517458.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India.” American Ethnologist 16, no. 4 (1989): 622–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/645113.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “History and the Nationalization Of Hinduism.” Social Research 59, no. 1 (1992): 111–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40970686.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Secularism and Toleration.” Economic and Political Weekly 29, no. 28 (1994): 1768–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4401459.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Community in the East.” Economic and Political Weekly 33, no. 6 (1998): 277–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4406377.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Five Hundred Years of Fear and Love.” Economic and Political Weekly 33, no. 22 (1998): 1330–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4406835.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Beyond the Nation? Or Within?” Economic and Political Weekly 32, no. 1/2 (1997): 30–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4404962.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “How We Loved the Bomb and Later Rued It.” Economic and Political Weekly 33, no. 24 (1998): 1437–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4406875.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Beyond the Nation? Or Within?” Social Text, no. 56 (1998): 57–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/466770.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Anderson’s Utopia.” Diacritics 29, no. 4 (1999): 128–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566381.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Institutional Context of Social Science Research in South Asia.” Economic and Political Weekly 37, no. 35 (2002): 3604–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4412549.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Shoddy Scholarship.” Economic and Political Weekly 38, no. 6 (2003): 494–576. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4413170.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Empire after Globalisation.” Economic and Political Weekly 39, no. 37 (2004): 4155–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4415532.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Last Maverick: Ismail Merchant.” India International Centre Quarterly 32, no. 4 (2006): 29–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23005892.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “India’s Divide: Economic Growth and Marginalized Groups.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 14, no. 2 (2008): 139–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24590720.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Near Future of Social Science Research in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 5 (2008): 38–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40276970.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Democracy and Economic Transformation in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 16 (2008): 53–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277640.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Classes, Capital and Indian Democracy.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 46 (2008): 89–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40278188.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “The Coming Crisis in West Bengal.” Economic and Political Weekly 44, no. 9 (2009): 42–45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40278553.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “In Memoriam: Anjan Ghosh.” Economic and Political Weekly 45, no. 26/27 (2010): 37–39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40736690.
• Partha Chatterjee. “The Movement against Politics.” Cultural Critique 81 (2012): 117–22. https://doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.81.2012.0117.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Regional Bias.” Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 3 (2012): 4–4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41419720.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “After Subaltern Studies.” Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 35 (2012): 44–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41720086.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Indian Cinema: Then and Now.” India International Centre Quarterly 39, no. 2 (2012): 45–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41804040.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Subaltern Studies and ‘Capital.’” Economic and Political Weekly 48, no. 37 (2013): 69–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23528277.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Historicising Caste in Bengal Politics.” Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 50 (2012): 69–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41720469.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Remembering Asok Sen.” Economic and Political Weekly 51, no. 6 (2016): 30–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44004350.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Freedom of Speech in the University.” Economic and Political Weekly 51, no. 11 (2016): 35–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44004098.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Javeed Alam: A Remarkable Activist-Intellectual.” Social Scientist 45, no. 1/2 (2017): 81–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26380331.
• Chatterjee, Partha. “Gramsci in India: Capitalist Hegemony and Subaltern Politics.” Studi Storici 58, no. 4 (2017): 963–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45096710.