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      Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee

      Dedicated to Partha Chatterjee-one of the finest theoreticians of contemporary India-this volume discusses the different ways of theorizing the present. It deals with issues like history and historicality; state, community…

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      A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

      Partha Chatterjee

      In 1921, a traveling religious man appeared in Bengal, who was later, began to be identified as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal. So began one of the…

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      The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

      Partha Chatterjee

      Looks at the results of nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. This title shows…

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      The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak

      Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

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      The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power

      Partha Chatterjee

      When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died…

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      Texts Of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal

      Partha Chatterjee

      Bengal was the first modern province in India - the first, that is, to undergo a forced encounter with Western modernity. From this point of view, the writers in this…

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      The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak

      Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

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      Through my looking glass: Close Encounters of a personal kind

      Partha Chatterjee

      Partha never worked behind a desk and from 9 to 5. He started his career in the exotic tea gardens of Northeast India and continued his career in luxury hotels…

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      State and Politics in India

      This volume comprises 15 essays analyzing India’s major political institutions - among others, the judiciary, the bureaucracy and the party system - and also processes of domination and resistance that…

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      The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

      Partha Chatterjee

      Argues that the rise of ethnic or identity politics - in the postcolonial world - is a consequence of techniques of governmental administration. Using examples from India, this book examines…

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      The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

      Partha Chatterjee

      Argues that the rise of ethnic or identity politics - in the postcolonial world - is a consequence of techniques of governmental administration. Using examples from India, this book examines…

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      Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

      Partha Chatterjee

      Building on his theory of ‘political society’, first developed in ‘Politics in the Governed’, and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Partha Chatterjee broadly critiques the past 300 years…

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      Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

      Partha Chatterjee

      Building on his theory of ‘political society’, first developed in ‘Politics in the Governed’, and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Partha Chatterjee broadly critiques the past 300 years…

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      I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

      Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University)

      Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for the people. To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee…

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      I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

      Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University)

      Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for the people. To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee…

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      Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States

      Using a classic text, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, this volume offers a comparative analysis of democratic experience in India and the US. It covers diversified topics-citizenship, religion, capitalism…

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      Child Labour: Global Challenges, Issues and Policy

      Anil Bhuimali,Partha Chatterjee

      This book presents the global child labour scenario with emphasis on India’s situation; surveying the conditions of working children and the social, political and economic causes leading to their employment.

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      History and the Present

      The essays in this volume bring together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history within present-day conditions. A compelling collected volume of pertinent and articulate essays.

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      Empire and Nation: Selected Essays

      Partha Chatterjee

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

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      Empire and Nation: Selected Essays

      Partha Chatterjee

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

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      Conjectures and Evidences

      Rakhahari Chatterji, Partha Pratim Basu, Jyotiprasad Chatterjee, Suprio Basu

      This book examines some of the major and most commonly used methods and statistics necessary for social science research. It is meant primarily for the beginners, and hence does not…

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      The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus: Comprising Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, The Nation and its Fragments, and A Possible India

      Partha Chatterjee (Professor of Political Science and Director, Professor of Political Science and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

      The Omnibus comprises three of Partha Chatterjee’s finest works, marking a significant phase in the author’s intellectual journey as a political scientist. The principal object of study in all three…

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      Little Clay Cart

      Charu-datta, a bankrupt married merchant, is extramaritally involved with a wealthy courtesan, Vasanta-sena. The king’s vile brother-in-law, unable to win Vasanta-sena’s love, strangles her, and accuses Charu-datta. The court decides…

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905: Justice, Police, Law and Order

      John Marriott,Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      John Marriott,Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume IV

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      New Cultural Histories of India

      Most of the papers presented at the conference on ‘New Cultural Histories of India’, organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences during 5-7 January 2010.

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume II

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume III

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume V

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume II

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume III

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume IV

      John Marriott (University of Oxford, UK),Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

      Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion

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      Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Manufacturing Environments

      Shankar Chakraborty, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Partha Protim Das

      Introduces MCDM methods starting from problem formulation, model development, criteria weighting, and alternative scoring and then to the ranking of alternatives. The authors explain the step-by-step processes of different MCDM…

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      Conjectures and Evidences

      Rakhahari Chatterji, Partha Pratim Basu, Jyotiprasad Chatterjee, Suprio Basu

      This book examines some of the major and most commonly used methods and statistics necessary for social science research. It is meant primarily for the beginners, and hence does not…

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      Routing and Wavelength Assignment for WDM-based Optical Networks: Quality-of-Service and Fault Resilience

      Bijoy Chand Chatterjee,Nityananda Sarma,Partha Pratim Sahu,Eiji Oki

      This book presents an in-depth treatment of routing and wavelength assignment for optical networks, and focuses specifically on quality-of-service and fault resiliency issues.

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      Routing and Wavelength Assignment for WDM-based Optical Networks: Quality-of-Service and Fault Resilience

      Bijoy Chand Chatterjee,Nityananda Sarma,Partha Pratim Sahu,Eiji Oki

      This book presents an in-depth treatment of routing and wavelength assignment for optical networks, and focuses specifically on quality-of-service and fault resiliency issues.

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      Unish Shotoke Banglar Shromik Itihaser Koyekti Dik: Duti Porjacholona

      Dipesh Chakrabarty (Professor, University of Chicago),Late Ranajit Dasgupta (Former Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta)

      Part of the ‘Occasional Papers’ series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal…

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