Empire and Nation

Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His books include The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World, A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, and The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Nivedita Menon is professor of political theory at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Recovering Subversion and editor of Gender and Politics in India.

• Acknowledgements Introduction, by Nivedita Menon Part I: Empire and Nation 1. Whose Imagined Community? (1991) 2. The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse (1987) 3. History and the Nationalization of Hinduism (1991) 4. The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree (1985) 5. Of Diaries, Delirium, and Discourse (1996) 6. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1989) 7. Our Modernity (1994) 8. A Tribute to the Master (2001) 9. Those Fond Memories of the Raj (2005) 10. Beyond the Nation? Or Within? (1997) Part II: Democracy 11. Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death (2001) 12. Secularism and Toleration (1994) 13. Satanic? Or the Surrender of the Modern? (1988) 14. Development Planning and the Indian State (1994) 15. We Have Heard This Before (1990) Part III: Capital and Community 16. A Response to Taylor's 'Modes of Civil Society' (1990) 17. A Brief History of Subaltern Studies (1998) 18. The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal, 1920-1947 (1986) 19. On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal (1999) Index