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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

Partha Chatterjee
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In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chattjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and African that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists in India produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. [Description from the back-flap of the 1993 Princeton Paperback.]
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

Partha Chatterjee
3.81/5 (229 ratings)
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In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chattjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and African that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists in India produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. [Description from the back-flap of the 1993 Princeton Paperback.]
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pages
Publication:
1993
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Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0691033056
ISBN13:
9780691033051
kindle Asin:
B086H73PVJ

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