Main entry:

Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-

Title & Author:

The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories / Partha Chatterjee.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.

Description:

xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
Whose Imagined Community? -- The Colonial State -- The Nationalist Elite -- The Nation and Its Pasts -- Histories and Nations -- The Nation and Its Women -- Women and the Nation -- The Nation and Its Peasants -- The Nation and Its Outcasts -- The National State -- Communities and the Nation.
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Summary:

"In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity."--Pub. desc.

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ISBN:

0691033056 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780691033051 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0691019436 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691019437 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Nationalism India History.
Nationalism India Bengal History.
Nationalisme Inde Histoire.
Nationalisme Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire.
15.75 history of Asia.
Nationalism.
Kolonialismus
Kolonialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
Nationalisme.
Culturele identiteit.
Nationalisme Bengale Histoire.
India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
India History 20th century.
Inde Histoire 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde Histoire 20e siècle.
India.
India Bengal.
Indien
Inde 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde 20e siècle.
Nationalism History
kolonialisme
nationalisme
colonialism
geschiedenis
history
west bengal
great britain
International Politics
Internationale Politiek

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278736
Call No.: BIB 214386
Status: Available