{"product_id":"the-partha-chatterjee-omnibus","title":"The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Partha Chatterjee\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1999\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 301\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195651561\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis omnibus comprises three of Partha Chatterjee's finest works and marks a significant phase in the intellectual journey of one of India's foremost political scientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe common thread that unites the three books is the principal object of study which is the existing nation-state.  The first 'Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World' traces the 'ideological history' of the Indian nation-state from its conception to its fruition.  To the author, the 'end of the story', I.e. the birth of the nation-state, was what was known and needed to be problematized.  The second work, 'The Nation and Its Fragments, through a series of interventions in different disciplinary fields, converged upon the same object - the Indian nation-state as it had developed after four decades of its post-colonial career.  The last, 'A Possible India' is a more strategic and contingent, and hence more actively political, engagement with the object of analysis - namely, the present career and crisis of the Indian nation-state.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World' first published in 1986, has attained the status of a classic.  In this significant book, the author criticizes Western theories of Third World nationalism - both liberal and Marxist, demonstrating how Western concepts of nationalism have imposed themselves on non-Western peoples.  He shows, in the context of India, how nationalism remained dominated by the very structure of power it sought to repudiate.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarrying his argument further in 'The Nation and Its Fragments' ,m Chatterjee points out that scholars have been mistaken in looking for nationalism only in the political domain of the state.  He shows how the nationalists sought to create a new 'nationalist' modernity around the institution of language, religion, literature, art, education and the family.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 'A Possible India, using a variety of stylistic genres - essays, commentaries, book reviews, journal entries - a panoptic view of long term changes in the overall system as well as close and detailed observations of fifty years of Indian politics since independence is offered.  The book's concern is to develop a perspective on democracy in India, not in the clichT-ridden sense of government of, by and for the people, but as the politics of the governed.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, all three books investigate the relation between rulers and peoples within the imagined-into-reality framework of the Indian nation.  Written in an engaging and original style, this collection is invaluable for all those interested in the ideas and politics of colonialism and postcolonialism.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, globally learned, uncompromising, lucid.  Required reading for any one interested in the history, theory, and politics of nationalism.                                                        - - Gayatri Spivak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important book, lucidly written from a critical Marxist perspective.                                                        - - Economic and Political Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Nation and Its Fragments'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a work of magisterial erudition, the product of a mind working at the fullest command of its critical powers . . It is written with deft authority, in a prose that is as elegant as it is passionate.                                                         - - Amitav Ghosh in The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLay readers with a taste for relevant, lucidly argued social theory will find it a treat, while academics will surely recognize it as a significant event in contemporary cultural criticism.                                                         - - The Hindu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A Possible India'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rather unusual collection of very different kinds of writings by Chatterjee written over twenty-one years.                                                         - - Biblio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs informed by a sense of optimism, of not only patriotic faith in the Indian people but also a realistic assessment of the weaknesses and strengths of India as a nation.                                                          - - The Pioneer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATIONALIST THOUGHT AND THE COLONIAL WORLD: \u003cbr\u003eA DERIVATIVE DISCOURSE?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNationalism as a Problem in the History of Political Ideas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thematic and the Problematic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moment of Departure: Culture and Power in the thought of Bankimchandra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moment of Manoeuvre: Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moment of Arrival: Nehru and the Passive Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cunning of Reason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NATION AND ITS FRAGMENTS: COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL HISTORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhose Imagined Community?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Colonial State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nationalist Elite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nation and Its Pasts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistories and Nations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nation and Its Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen and the Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nation and Its Peasants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nation and Its Outcasts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunities and the Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA POSSIBLE INDIA: ESSAYS IN POLITICAL CRITICISM \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Big Bourgeoisie:\u003cbr\u003eComprador or National?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nehru Era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndian Democracy and Bourgeois Reaction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNineteen Seventy Seven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharan Singh’s Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome New elements in India’s Parliamentary Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndira Gandhi: The Final Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Writing on the Wall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRajiv’s Regime: The Rise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Appropriation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRajiv’s Regime: The Fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe National Front and After\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Centre Crumbles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecularism and Toleration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTalking about Our Modernity in Two Languages \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Partha Chatterjee \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153545523568,"sku":"2580","price":53.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/2683.jpg?v=1793910964","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-partha-chatterjee-omnibus","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}