Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee - Hardcover

This is an important volume with essays by some of the finest scholars writing on South Asia...This book will be an appropriate tribute to an intellectual whose writings have so profoundly shaped the way we think about colonialism, nationalism, and the present. (Neeladri Bhattacharya, Professor at the Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Perth Chatterjee is regarded as a renowned theoretician of events and processes that constitute contemporary Indian politics and society. Seen variously as a political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and a philosopher, his writings on colonialism, Indian nationalism, historiography, Indian state and politics, and identity continue to inspire generations of scholars. This festschrift volume is written by a group of scholars who continue to seriously engage with Partha Chatterjee's ideas and concepts. Dealing with different ways of theorizing the present, it is divided into five sections-history and historicality; state, community, and political subjectivity; nationalism and its critiques; political society; and publics and collectivities. The volume includes contributions from noted scholars like Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gyanendra Pandey, Ramchandra Guha, Madhav Prasad, Pradeep K. Datta etc.
This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of political science, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology.