The nation and its fragments : Colonial and postcolonial histories / Partha Chatterjee.

"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 equati...

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Main Author: Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Other Authors: Sherry B. Ortner (editors.), Nicholas B. Dirks (editors.), Geoff Eley (editors.)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; West Chichester, West Sussex : Princeton University Press, 1993.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.