The Resource The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories, Partha Chatterjee
The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories, Partha Chatterjee
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- Summary
- "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 political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity."--Pub. desc
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 282 p.
- Contents
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- Whose Imagined Community?
- The Colonial State
- The Nationalist Elite
- The Nation and Its Pasts
- Histories and Nations
- The Nation and Its Women
- Women and the Nation
- The Nation and Its Peasants
- The Nation and Its Outcasts
- The National State
- Communities and the Nation
- Isbn
- 9780691033051
- Label
- The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories
- Title
- The nation and its fragments
- Title remainder
- colonial and postcolonial histories
- Statement of responsibility
- Partha Chatterjee
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity."--Pub. desc
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chatterjee, Partha
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS468
- LC item number
- .C47 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- India
- India
- Nationalism
- Nationalism
- Label
- The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories, Partha Chatterjee
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index
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- volume
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- Whose Imagined Community? -- The Colonial State -- The Nationalist Elite -- The Nation and Its Pasts -- Histories and Nations -- The Nation and Its Women -- Women and the Nation -- The Nation and Its Peasants -- The Nation and Its Outcasts -- The National State -- Communities and the Nation
- Control code
- ocm27934680
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 282 p.
- Isbn
- 9780691033051
- Lccn
- 93015536
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Label
- The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories, Partha Chatterjee
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index
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- volume
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- nc
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- Whose Imagined Community? -- The Colonial State -- The Nationalist Elite -- The Nation and Its Pasts -- Histories and Nations -- The Nation and Its Women -- Women and the Nation -- The Nation and Its Peasants -- The Nation and Its Outcasts -- The National State -- Communities and the Nation
- Control code
- ocm27934680
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 282 p.
- Isbn
- 9780691033051
- Lccn
- 93015536
- Media category
- unmediated
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