Partha Chatterjee is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His previous books include The Nation and Its Fragments:...

Partha Chatterjee is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His previous books include The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories and I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today.