Partha Chatterjee (scholar) explained

Partha Chatterjee
Birth Date:	5 November 1947^[1]
Birth Place:	Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Alma Mater:	Presidency College, Calcutta Calcutta University University of Rochester

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. He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.

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.

Other Publications

• 1988. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080303091604/http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/chatterjee.cfm Towards a Postcolonial Modernity - Asiasource Interview with Partha Chatterjee

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chatterjee. Partha. Curriculum Vitae. 5 June 2017. 20 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161020124149/http://www.mgu.ac.in/files/PARTHA.pdf. dead.
2. Web site: Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. www.columbia.edu. 5 June 2017. en.
3. Web site: Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize. Fukuoka. 19 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230451/http://www.asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/index.html. 30 December 2017. dead.
4. Web site: Wheeler. William. Presidential Lectures: Partha Chatterjee. prelectur.stanford.edu. 5 June 2017.
5. Web site: Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta. www.cssscal.org. 5 June 2017. 11 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170611195051/http://www.cssscal.org/partha_chatterjee_contact.html. dead.