(유) Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World

 

Partha Chatterjee

Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World

 

 

 

 

Preface

1. Nationalism as a Problem in the History of Political Ideas

2. The Thematic and the Problematic
3. The Moment of Departure: Culture and Power in the Thought of Bankimchandra
4. The Moment of Manoeuvre: Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society
5. The Moment of Arrival: Nehru and the Passive Revolution
6. The Cunning of Reason
Bibliography

Index

 

Partha Chatterjee’s Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986) was a path-breaking analysis of the contradictory character of anticolonial nationalism. The work was seminal to the critique of nationalism emerging in the work of the Subaltern Studies Collective and the cornerstone of Chatterjee’s own long and influential engagement with the dilemmas of postcolonial politics and their conceptualization. Almost three decades after the publication of Nationalist Thought, we are delighted to revisit this classic work and raise new questions about the history of anticolonial nationalism and its contested legacies today.