Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

Partha Chatterjee

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Paper, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15813-8
$27.50 / £19.00

November, 2011
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15812-1
$84.50 / £58.50

"Partha Chatterjee is one of the most important writers and theorists of our time, a voice as fresh and original as it is powerful and necessary." — Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University, author of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Asian History
• Political Theory
• South Asian Studies

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Partha Chatterjee is honorary professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His books include Empire and Nation: Selected Essays; The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World; A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism; and The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.

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