The Nation and Its Fragments : : Colonial and Postcolonial Histories / / Partha Chatterjee.

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 pol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1994
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments.
  • Chapter One. Whose Imagined Community?
  • Chapter Two. The Colonial State
  • Chapter Three. The Nationalist Elite
  • Chapter Four. The Nation and Its Pasts
  • Chapter Five. Histories and Nations
  • Chapter Six. The Nation and Its Women
  • Chapter Seven. Women and the Nation
  • Chapter Eight. The Nation and Its Peasants
  • Chapter Nine. The Nation and Its Outcasts
  • Chapter Ten. The National State
  • Chapter Eleven. Communities and the Nation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index