Partha Chatterjee
Biography
Partha Chatterjee is currently finishing a book entitled Government by the People: Critique of the Nation Form consisting of three parts: Government of the People (sovereignty), Government for the People (populism) and Government by the People (democracy). He hopes to have a completed manuscript by early 2018. Alongside, he has begun a study of the curious phenomenon of the disappearance of caste in the politics of the Indian state of West Bengal. He has recently completed two papers on this subject.
2015. (with Sudipta Kaviraj and Nivedita Menon) The Indian Ideology: Three Responses to Perry Anderson (Permanent Black)
2014. (Edited with Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Bodhisattva Kar) New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (Oxford University Press)
2012. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (Princeton University Press)
2012. (Edited with Ira Katznelson) Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on Democracy in India and the United States (Oxford University Press)
2011. Lineages of Political Society (Columbia University Press)
2010. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005 (Columbia University Press)
2009. (Edited) The Small Voice of History: The Collected Essays of Ranajit Guha (Permanent Black)
2008. (Edited with Raziuddin Aquil) History in the Vernacular (Permanent Black)
2005. Praja o tantra [Subjects and Systems] (in Bengali) (Anustup)
2004. The Politics of the Governed (Columbia University Press). Translated into Turkish, Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
2002. A Princely Impostor: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal (Princeton University Press)
2000. Itihaser uttaradhikar [The Legacy of History] (in Bengali) (Ananda)
1999. The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus (Oxford University Press)
1997. A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism (Oxford University Press)
1997. The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism (Oxford University Press)
1993. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton University Press). Translated into Turkish.
1986. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? (Zed Books; University of Minnesota Press). Translated into Turkish, Arabic, Telugu and Hebrew.
1984 (revised 2010). Bengal 1920-1947: The Land Question (K. P. Bagchi)