Prof. Partha Chatterjee

Professor of Political Science

Ph.D. (University of Rochester, USA)

Former Director (1997-February 2007)

Research Interests:   

Political Theory of Democracy, History of Bengal in the Twentieth Century

• The Politics of the Governed: Considerations on Political Society in Most of the World, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.

• A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002.

•  Locating Political Society: Modernity, State Violence and Post-colonial Democracies [in Mandarin Chinese, translated from lectures delivered in English], Taipei, 2001.

•  Itihaser uttaradhikar [The Legacy of History] (in Bengali), Ananda, Calcutta, 2000.

• Partha Chatterjee Omnibus, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999.

•  A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997

• The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997.

• The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. Translated into Turkish, Spanish, French and Japanese.

• Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?, Zed Books; London; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986; University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993. Translated into Turkish and Spanish.

•  Bengal 1920-1947: The Land Question, K. P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1984

• (With Asok Sen and Saugata Mukherjee), Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure of Bengal: 1860-1947, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1981.

• (With S. Kaviraj, S. Dattagupta and S.K. Chaube), The State of Political Theory Research India, Calcutta, 1978.

•  Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics, Macmillan, Delhi; John Wiley, New York, 1975.

• Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia, Social Science Research Council, New York, 2002.

• (with Anjan Ghosh) History and the Present, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2002.

• (with Pradeep Jeganathan) Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Genckr and Violence,

• Permanent Black, Delhi; Columbia University Press, New York, 2000).

• (with Gautam Bhadra) Nimnabarger itihas [The History of the Subaltern Classes], Ananda, Calcutta, 1998

• The Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian Nation-state, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998.

•  State and Politics in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997.

• Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1995.

• (With Gyanendra Pandey), Subaltern Studies VII, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992.