Nation and Its Fragments Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Name: Nation and Its Fragments Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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ISBN: 9780691019437

ISBN-10: 0691019436

ISBN-13: 9780691019437

Edition: 1994

Authors: Partha Chatterjee

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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…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/7/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.13" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.880



Preface and Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index