| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Cultures of history
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Cultures of history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lineages of political society -- Five hundred years of fear and love -- The rule of subjects -- Two poets and death -- Tagore's non-nation -- The people in utopian and real time -- The sacred circulation of national images -- Critique of popular culture -- Community and capital -- Democracy and economic transformation -- Empire and nation today. |
| Summary |
Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist, is known for his wide disciplinary range, incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities with remarkable dexterity. His versatility made his early work, Politics of the Governed, a widespread hit, and it continues to draw audiences in an era of genre-defying, globalized scholarship. Building on his theory of ""political society, "" first developed in his Politics of the Governed, and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Chatterjee broadly critiqu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy -- India -- History.
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Democracy. |
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India. |
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History. |
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Democracy -- Philosophy.
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Democracy -- Philosophy. |
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Postcolonialism -- India.
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Postcolonialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231158121 0231158122 (DLC) 2011032753 |
| ISBN |
0231527918 electronic book |
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9780231527910 electronic book |
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9780231158121 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0231158122 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780231158138 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0231158130 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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