Partha Chatterjee (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist. He was the director of the

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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

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and a member of the

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. Chatterjee received the

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in 2009.

Education

He completed a BA (1967) and an

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(1970) in political science from

Presidency College, Calcutta Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

and

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respectively. He completed his Ph.D. (1972) in international relations from the

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Career

He was the professor of political science and served as a director of the

and is currently a professor (honorary) of the CSSSC and professor of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

and South Asian studies at

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. He was a founder-member of the

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''.

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. *1995. ''Texts of Power''. Minneapolis

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. *1997. ''A Possible India''. New Delhi:

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. *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''.

. *2004. ''The Politics of the Governed: Popular Politics in Most of the World'',

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. *2010. ''Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005'',

. *2011. ''Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy'',

*2012. ''The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power'',

. Other Publications * 1988. ''The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question.''

References

External links

Biography of Partha Chatterjee on Columbia University's faculty page

Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

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