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Nation and Its Fragments (93 Edition)

by 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 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.

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"An original and powerful analysis of the emergence of anticolonial nationalism and the postcolonial state. . . . This is not merely a book on nationalism in India with some 'comparative' implications. Instead, it presents the historical case of colonial nationalism to challenge the Eurocentricity of certain basic categories--the nations-state, modernity, and indeed history itself."--Gyan Prakash, Princeton University

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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 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index.

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Table of Contents

	Preface and Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Whose Imagined Community?	3
Ch. 2	The Colonial State	14
Ch. 3	The Nationalist Elite	35
Ch. 4	The Nation and Its Pasts	76
Ch. 5	Histories and Nations	95
Ch. 6	The Nation and Its Women	116
Ch. 7	Women and the Nation	135
Ch. 8	The Nation and Its Peasants	158
Ch. 9	The Nation and Its Outcasts	173
Ch. 10	The National State	200
Ch. 11	Communities and the Nation	220
	Notes	241
	Bibliography	263
	Index	273

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780691019437

Subtitle:

Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Author:

Chatterjee, Partha

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Location:

Princeton, N.J. :

Subject:

India

Subject:

History

Subject:

20th century

Subject:

Nationalism

Subject:

Asia - India

Subject:

Nationalism -- India -- Bengal -- History.

Subject:

Asia - India & South Asia

Subject:

Anthropology - General

Subject:

Asian and Asian American Studies

Subject:

Political Science and International Relations

Subject:

Anthropology

Subject:

Postcolonial Studies

Subject:

India - History - British occupation, 1765-

Subject:

India History 20th century.

Subject:

World History - India

Copyright:

1993

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Paperback

Series Volume:

no. 133

Publication Date:

October 1993

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

College/higher education:

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

296

Dimensions:

9 x 6 in 14 oz

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"Synopsis" by Princeton, "An original and powerful analysis of the emergence of anticolonial nationalism and the postcolonial state. . . . This is not merely a book on nationalism in India with some 'comparative' implications. Instead, it presents the historical case of colonial nationalism to challenge the Eurocentricity of certain basic categories--the nations-state, modernity, and indeed history itself."--Gyan Prakash, Princeton University

"Synopsis" by Princeton, 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.