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245 0 0 _aTheorizing the present: essays for Partha Chatterjee/
_cedited by Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axii, 322 p.:
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aPart I: History and Historicality ---- 1. History and the Politics of Recognition /Dipesh Chakrabarty -- 2. Indian Historiography and its 'Resolution' of Feminists' Questions /Janaki Nair Part II: State, Community, andPolitical Subjectivity ---- 3. The Republic of Babel: Language and Political Subjectivity in Free India /M. Madhava Prasad -- 4. The Contours of Violence: 'Ordinary', 'Extraordinary', and Epistemic /Gyanendra Pandey -- 5. Sovereignty and the Dialogic Subject /Ranabir Samaddar Part III: Nationalism and its Critiques ---- 6. Locating Gandhi in Indian Art History: Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij /Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- 7. Travelling with Tagore /Ramachandra Guha -- 8. Nation Impossible: Thinking Beyond the Nation Form /M.S.S. Pandian Part IV: Reformulations of Political Society ---- 9. From Rescue Measures to Fuller Democracy /Asok Sen -- 10. Party Society, its Consolidation and Crisis: Understanding Political Change in West Bengal /Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya Part V: Publics and Collectivities in the City ---- 11. Contested Spaces: Puja and its Publics in Calcutta /Anjan Ghosh -- 12. Collectives Today: The Novelties of the Rizwanur Movement /Pradip Kumar Datta
650 _aHistorical Accounts
_xEssays
651 0 _aIndia
_xHistory
942 _cWB16