Partha Chatterjee (scholar)
| Partha Chatterjee | |
|---|---|
| Native name | পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায় |
| Born |
5 November 1947[1] Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater |
Presidency College, Calcutta Calcutta University University of Rochester |
Partha Chatterjee (Bengali: পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 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]
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.[3] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.[2]
He is a joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta. In addition to numerous books in English, he has published collections of essays in Bengali.
Publications
- Books
- 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.
See also
References
- 1 2 Chatterjee, Partha. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee". Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- 1 2 "Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta". www.cssscal.org. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ "Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize". Fukuoka. 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