Nationalist Thought And The Colonial World
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Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780862325534 |
Originally published: London: Zed Books for the United Nations University, 1986.
Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816623112 |
"If it isn't obvious from the title of this book that this is going to be full of postmodern jargon, it becomes clear quite quickly that Chaterjee prefers difficult terms like 'problematic', 'thematic' and 'discourse' without always defining them - he even admits his admiration for Rorty, Barthes, Foucault and Derrida. Nonetheless, underneath all of this verbiage is a strong and convincing argument about the three stages of nationalism in India: the moment of departure (epitomized by Bankimchandra Chatttopadhyay), the moment of manoeuvre (Gandhi) and the moment of arrival (Nehru). Chatterjee clearly shows how nationalism in India was akin to Gramsci's concept of the 'passive revolution' - i.e. merely a drive towards independence, not towards transforming or breaking up colonial instutions. He argues that, instead of supporting nationalism, we should instead challenge the marriage between reason and capital. From the title of this book one might expect Chatterjee to draw links to other anti-colonial nationalisms but he doesn't; rather he only discusses India (not even other parts of South Asia). While this approach doesn't really make this book too useful for examining anti-colonial nationalisms in general, for someone like me who has never read a book on Indian nationalism this is a good introduction." -- from Amazon.ca.
Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Nationalism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pārtha Caṭṭopādhyāẏa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
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Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 9780195638691 |
Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Summary: Post 1947 political situation in India.
Author | : Bernard S. Cohn |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400844320 |
Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal systems, led to fundamental structural changes in Indian social relations. This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form a multifaceted exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Cohn argues that the British Orientalists' study of Indian languages was important to the colonial project of control and command. He also asserts that an arena of colonial power that seemed most benign and most susceptible to indigenous influences--mostly law--in fact became responsible for the institutional reactivation of peculiarly British notions about how to regulate a colonial society made up of "others." He shows how the very Orientalist imagination that led to brilliant antiquarian collections, archaeological finds, and photographic forays were in fact forms of constructing an India that could be better packaged, inferiorized, and ruled. A final essay on cloth suggests how clothes have been part of the history of both colonialism and anticolonialism.
Author | : Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0691201420 |
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.
Author | : Florian Wagner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316512835 |
Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.
Author | : James Mayall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1990-02-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521389617 |
Geared to the interests of modern historians of world decolonization and economic nationalism, this study of international relations will provide insight into issues relevant to nationalism and international society.