Partha chatterjee biography sample paper

1 Chatterjee, Partha ANINDYA BHATTACHARYA Partha Chatterjee is an eminent postcolonial thinker, and a central figure of the subaltern studies collective.

Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, in 1947, he is a graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta, and has a PhD from Rochester University, New York. Chatterjee is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and honorary professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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His reputation today mainly rests on his genealogy of nationalist thought and his conceptualization of political society, as well as his exposition of complex issues of community and capital, modernity and historiography. His achievement is a historiography that counters the universalizing Western and nationalist narratives by favoring the local, the cultural, and the fragmentary.

TWO TYPES OF NATIONALISM Chatterjee begins a critique of postEnlightenment liberal-rationalism by closely reading Western repr