Partha Chatterjee (born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist.^[2] 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.^[3] He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.^[2]

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Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.^[4]

He completed a BA (1967) and an 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.^[1][5]

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.^[3] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.^[2]

Books

• 1975. Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics, Macmillan.
• 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.