Partha Chatterjee
Title
Partha Chatterjee
Rights
Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Tapan Paul.
Birth Date
1947
Birthplace
India
Primary Sources
Bhuimali A. and Chatterjee, P. (2022). Child Labour: Global Challenges, Issues and Policy, Sage Press.
Chatterjee, P.(2021).The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak, Suny Press, https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Truths-and-Lies-of-Nationalism-as-Narrated-by-Charvak2
Chatterjee, P and Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, P. (2019). I am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty. Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/i-am-the-people/9780231195492.
Chatterjee, P. (2017). Javeed Alam: A Remarkable Activist-Intellectual. Social Scientist, 45(1/2), 81–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26380331
Chatterjee, P. (2012). The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. Princetown University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152011/the-black-hole-of-empire.
Chatterjee, P. (2011). Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy. Columbia University Press.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/chat15812
Chatterjee, P. (2010) Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?": Subaltern Stduies after Spivak, In Morris, R (Ed). Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea, New York: Columbia University Press.
Chatterjee, P. (2006). The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World Columbia University Press, https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-the-governed/9780231130639/
Chatterjee, P. (2005). Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political, Hansen, T. B., & Stepputat, F. (Eds.). Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sdbh
Chatterjee, P. (2004).Whose Imagined Communities?, In A. Abbas and J.N. Ermi (Eds.), Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Internationalizing+Cultural+Studies%3A+An+Anthology-p-9780631236245
Chatterjee, P. (1994). Was There a Hegemonic Project of the Colonial State?. In D. Engels and S. Marks (Eds.). Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India, Bloomsbury Academic, pp.79-84.
Chatterjee, P. (1993). The Nation And Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691019437/the-nation-and-its-fragments
Chatterjee, P. (1989). Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India. American Ethnologist 16(4), 622–633.
https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1989.16.4.02a00020..
Chatterjee, P. (1986). Nationalist Thought And The Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Zed Books. Internet Archive, Accessed Sept 25, 2024. https://archive.org/details/nationalistthoug0000chat
Chatterjee, P.(2021).The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak, Suny Press, https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Truths-and-Lies-of-Nationalism-as-Narrated-by-Charvak2
Chatterjee, P and Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, P. (2019). I am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty. Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/i-am-the-people/9780231195492.
Chatterjee, P. (2017). Javeed Alam: A Remarkable Activist-Intellectual. Social Scientist, 45(1/2), 81–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26380331
Chatterjee, P. (2012). The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. Princetown University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152011/the-black-hole-of-empire.
Chatterjee, P. (2011). Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy. Columbia University Press.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/chat15812
Chatterjee, P. (2010) Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?": Subaltern Stduies after Spivak, In Morris, R (Ed). Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea, New York: Columbia University Press.
Chatterjee, P. (2006). The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World Columbia University Press, https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-the-governed/9780231130639/
Chatterjee, P. (2005). Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political, Hansen, T. B., & Stepputat, F. (Eds.). Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sdbh
Chatterjee, P. (2004).Whose Imagined Communities?, In A. Abbas and J.N. Ermi (Eds.), Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Internationalizing+Cultural+Studies%3A+An+Anthology-p-9780631236245
Chatterjee, P. (2002). Institutional Context of Social Science Research in South Asia. Economic and Political Weekly, 37(35), 3604–3612. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4412549
Chatterjee, P. (1999). Anderson’s Utopia. Diacritics, 29(4), 128–134. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566381
Chatterjee, P. (1998). Beyond the Nation? Or within? Social Text, 56, 57–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/466770
Chatterjee, P. (1994). Was There a Hegemonic Project of the Colonial State?. In D. Engels and S. Marks (Eds.). Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Africa and India, Bloomsbury Academic, pp.79-84.
Chatterjee, P. (1993). The Nation And Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691019437/the-nation-and-its-fragments
Chatterjee, P. (1989). Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India. American Ethnologist 16(4), 622–633.
https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1989.16.4.02a00020..
Chatterjee, P. (1986). Nationalist Thought And The Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Zed Books. Internet Archive, Accessed Sept 25, 2024. https://archive.org/details/nationalistthoug0000chat
Secondary Sources
Bhagavan, M. (2017). Reflections On Indian Internationalism And A Postnational Global Order: A Response To Partha Chatterjee. Comparative Studies Of South Asia, Africa And The Middle East , 37(2), 220–225.
Shil, P. P. (2013). Book Review: Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair eds, Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee. History and Sociology of South Asia, 7(2), 206–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/2230807513479058
Shil, P. P. (2013). Book Review: Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair eds, Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee. History and Sociology of South Asia, 7(2), 206–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/2230807513479058
Extra Resources
The Wire India Profile, Accessed 21 March, 2023.
https://thewire.in/government/who-is-partha-chatterje
Partha Chatterjee discusses ‘Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World’ (1986) and recent anti-colonial nationalism, Yale University. Dec 12, 2013. YouTube. Accessed Sept 15, 2022.
https://youtu.be/jaZn9IqPJZg.
https://thewire.in/government/who-is-partha-chatterje
Partha Chatterjee discusses ‘Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World’ (1986) and recent anti-colonial nationalism, Yale University. Dec 12, 2013. YouTube. Accessed Sept 15, 2022.
https://youtu.be/jaZn9IqPJZg.
Collection
Citation
“Partha Chatterjee,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed March 21, 2026, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/419.