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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.

Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

 

cspt  International  Conference  for  the  Study  of  Political  Thought  Yale Political Theory Workshop

Revisiting Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World

A conversation with Partha Chatterjee

November 20, 2013, 4:15PM

Luce Hall Auditorium