The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus
Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, The Nation and Its Fragments, A Possible India
"This omnibus comprises three of Partha Chatterjee's finest works and marks a significant phase in the intellectual journey of one of India's foremost political scientists. The common thread that unites the three books is the principal object of study which is the existing nation-state. The first, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World traces the 'ideological history' of the Indian nation-state from its conception to its fruition. To the author, the 'end of the story', i.e. the birth of the nation-state, was what was known and needed to be problematized. The Nation and Its Fragments, through a series of interventions in different disciplinary fields, converged upon the same object - the Indian nation-state as it had developed after four decades of its post-colonial career. The last, A Possible India is a more strategic and contingent, and hence more actively political, engagement with the object of analysis - namely, the present career and crisis of the Indian nation-state." "Taken together, all three books investigate the relation between rulers and peoples within the imagined-into-reality framework of the Indian nation. This collection is invaluable for all those interested in the ideas and politics of colonialism and postcolonialism."--BOOK JACKET.