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{{short description|Indian academic (born 1947)}}
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'''Partha Chatterjee''' (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist.<ref name="mesaas">{{cite web|title=Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/chatterjee.html|website=Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies|publisher=www.columbia.edu|access-date=5 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> He was the director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] from 1997 to 2007 and continues as an honorary professor of political science.<ref name="cssscal" /> He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at [[Columbia University]] and a member of the [[Subaltern Studies Collective]].<ref name="mesaas" />

Chatterjee received the [[Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize]] in 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/index.html|title=Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize|publisher=[[Fukuoka]]|access-date=19 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230451/http://www.asianmonth.com/prize/english/winner/index.html|archive-date=30 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Education==
He completed a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] (1967) and an [[Master of Arts|M.A]] (1970) in political science from [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] and [[Calcutta University]] respectively. He completed his Ph.D. (1972) in international relations from the [[University of Rochester]].<ref name="cv" /><ref name="wheeler">{{cite web|last1=Wheeler|first1=William|title=Presidential Lectures: Partha Chatterjee|url=https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/chatterjee/|website=prelectur.stanford.edu|access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref> His father, Santosh Chatterjee, was a Professor of Political Science at Calcutta University.

==Career==
He was the professor of political science and served as a director of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] and is currently a professor (honorary) of the CSSSC and professor of [[anthropology]] and South Asian studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City|New York]].<ref name="cssscal">{{cite web|title=Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta|url=http://www.cssscal.org/partha_chatterjee_contact.html|website=www.cssscal.org|access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref> He was a founder-member of the [[Subaltern Studies Collective]].<ref name="mesaas" />

He is a [[joint]]-[[editor in chief|editor]] of ''Baromash'', a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta. In addition to numerous books in English, he has published collections of essays in Bengali.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

==Publications==
;Books:
*1986. ''Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World''. London: Zed Books.
*1993. ''The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories''. [[Princeton University Press]].
*1995. ''Texts of Power''. Minneapolis [[University of Minnesota Press]].
*1997. ''A Possible India''. New Delhi: [[Oxford University Press]].
*1997. ''The Present History of West Bengal''. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
*2003. ''A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal''. [[Princeton University Press]].
*2004. ''The Politics of the Governed: Popular Politics in Most of the World'', [[Columbia University Press]].
*2010. ''Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005'', [[Columbia University Press]].
*2011. ''Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy'', [[Columbia University Press]]
*2012. ''The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power'', [[Princeton University Press]].

'''Other Publications'''

* 1988. ''The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question.'' [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]].

==See also==
* [[Vivek Chibber]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/chatterjee/faculty.html Biography of Partha Chatterjee on Columbia University's faculty page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100605151245/http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/committee/chatterjee_partha/ Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120022905/http://www.cul-studies.com/english/interview/200512/3226.html The Two Hats of Partha Chatterjee: An Interview]
* [https://archive.is/20030728201514/http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/poldiscourse/chatterjee/chatterjeeov.html Partha Chatterjee: Colonialism, History and Civil Society]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080303091604/http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/chatterjee.cfm] Towards a Postcolonial Modernity - Asiasource Interview with Partha Chatterjee

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