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Theorizing the present : Esays for Partha Chatterjee

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2011Description: 322p xivISBN:
  • 9780198071631
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.000000 GHO
Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Theorizing the present / Janaki Nair and Anjan Ghosh; History and the politics of recognition / Dipesh Chakrabarty; Indian historiography and its 'resolution' of feminists' questions / Janaki Nair; The Republic of Babel: language and political subjectivity in free India / M. Madhava Prasad; The contours of violence: 'ordinary', 'extraordinary', and epistemic / Gyanendra Pandey; Sovereignty and the dialogic subject / Ranabir Samaddar; Locating Gandhi in Indian art history: Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij / Tapati Guha-Thakurta; Travelling with Tagore / Ramachandra Guha; Nation impossible: thinking beyond the nation form / M.S.S. Pandian; From rescue measures to fuller democracy / Asok Sen; Party society, its consolidation crisis: understanding political change in West Bengal / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya; Contested spaces: Puja and its publics in Calcutta / Anjan Ghosh; Collectives today: the novelties of the Rizwanur movement / Pradip Kumar Datta
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Contents:
Introduction: Theorizing the present / Janaki Nair and Anjan Ghosh;
History and the politics of recognition / Dipesh Chakrabarty;
Indian historiography and its 'resolution' of feminists' questions / Janaki Nair;
The Republic of Babel: language and political subjectivity in free India / M. Madhava Prasad;
The contours of violence: 'ordinary', 'extraordinary', and epistemic / Gyanendra Pandey;
Sovereignty and the dialogic subject / Ranabir Samaddar;
Locating Gandhi in Indian art history: Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij / Tapati Guha-Thakurta;
Travelling with Tagore / Ramachandra Guha;
Nation impossible: thinking beyond the nation form / M.S.S. Pandian;
From rescue measures to fuller democracy / Asok Sen;
Party society, its consolidation crisis: understanding political change in West Bengal / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya;
Contested spaces: Puja and its publics in Calcutta / Anjan Ghosh;
Collectives today: the novelties of the Rizwanur movement / Pradip Kumar Datta

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