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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Partha Chatterjee Date of birth: November 5, 1947 Permanent address: 41B Garcha Road, Calcutta 700019, India Address in United States: 456 Riverside Drive, Apt. 5B, New York, NY 10027 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Present positions: Honorary Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, R1 Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata 700094, India Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, And Member, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York 10027, USA. Academic Career 1967 B. A. with First Class Honours in Political Science, University of Calcutta. 1970 M. A. in Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. 1971-72 Ph. D. in Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Professional Career 1971-72 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester. 1972 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Presidency College, Calcutta. 1972-73 Reader in Political Science, Guru Nanak University, Amritsar. 1973-79 Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. 1979- 2009 Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. 1997-present Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York 2 1997- 2007 Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 2006-present Member, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York 2007-present Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, New York 2009-present Honorary Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Visiting Appointments 1976-78 Visiting Lecturer, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. 3 1981-82 Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford. 1983 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra. 1984-89 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. 1989-90, 1990-91 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York. 1991 Visiting Fellow, A. E. Havens Center of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. 1993 Visiting Professor, Institut Kern, University of Leiden. 1995 Distinguished Visiting Professor, International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1996 Visiting Research Professor, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. 2000 Distinguished Lecturer, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of China (Taiwan) 2001 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin 2003 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2005 Danz Distinguished Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle 2006 Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Princeton University 2013 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Cape Town Publications Books 1. Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics (Delhi: Macmillan; New York: John Wiley, 1975). 2. (With S. Kaviraj, S. Dattagupta and S.K. Chaube), The State of Political Theory (Calcutta: 4 Research India, 1978). 3. (With Asok Sen and Saugata Mukherjee), Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure of Bengal 1860-1947 (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1981). 4. Bengal 1920-1947: The Land Question (Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi, 1984; revised edition 2010). 5. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? (London: Zed Books; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). Translated into Turkish, Arabic, Telugu and Hebrew. 6. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Translated into Turkish. 7. The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997). 8. A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997). 9. The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999). 10. Itihaser uttaradhikar [The Legacy of History] (in Bengali) (Calcutta: Ananda, 2000). 11. Locating Political Society: Modernity, State Violence and Post-colonial Democracies [in Mandarin Chinese, translated from lectures delivered in English] (Taipei, 2001). 12. A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). 13. The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). Translated into Turkish, Italian, French, Japanese and Simplified Character Chinese. 14. Colonialismo, Modernidade e Politica [in Portuguese, translated from English articles] (Salvador-Bahia: Historias ao Sul, 2004). 15. Praja o tantra [Subjects and System] (in Bengali) (Calcutta: Anustup, 2005); second enlarged edition 2008. 16. La Nación en Tiempo Heterogéneo y otros estudios subalternos [in Spanish, translated from English articles] (Buenos Aires, Mexico and Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno, 2008). 17. Katha lekhar svadhinata [The Freedom to Write] (in Bengali) (Calcutta: Gangchil, 2008). 5 18. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays 1985-2005 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010; Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2010) 19. Partha Chatterjee Reader (in Chinese) (Guangzhou: Nanfang Daily Press, 2010) 20. Lineages of Political Society (New York: Columbia University Press; Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2011) 21. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (Princeton: Princeton University Press and Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012) 22. Janapratinidhi [The People‟s Representative] (Calcutta: Anustup, 2014) 23. (with Sudipta Kaviraj and Nivedita Menon), The Indian Ideology: Three Responses to Perry Anderson (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2015) 24. Kathar katha: Tarun Pyne-er songe kathopakathan [By the Way: A Conversation with Tarun Pyne] (Calcutta: Talpata, 2016) Edited Books 1. (With Gyanendra Pandey), Subaltern Studies VII (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992). 2. Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). 3. State and Politics in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997). 4. The Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian Nation-state (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998). 5. (with Gautam Bhadra) Nimnabarger itihas [The History of the Subaltern Classes] (Calcutta: Ananda, 1998). 6. (with Pradeep Jeganathan) Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Gender and Violence (Delhi: Permanent Black; New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). 7. (with Anjan Ghosh) History and the Present (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002). 8. Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002) 6 9. (with Raziuddin Aquil) History in the Vernacular (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008) 10. The Small Voice of History: The Collected Essays of Ranajit Guha (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2009). 11. (with Ira Katznelson) Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on Democracy in India and the United States (New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) 12. (with Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Bodhisattva Kar) New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014) Papers 1. 'The Classical Balance of Power Theory', Journal of Peace Research (Oslo), 9, 3 (March 1972). 2. 'On the Rational Choice Theory of Limited Strategic War,' Indian Journal of Political Science (Delhi), 34, 2 (April-June 1973). 3. 'The Equilibrium Theory of Arms Races: Some Extensions,' Journal of Peace Research (Oslo), 11, 3 (March 1974). 4. (With Arup Mallik), 'Bharatiya Ganatantra o Bourgeois Pratikriya' [Indian Democracy and Bourgeois Reaction], Anya Artha (Calcutta), 8 (March-May 1975). 5. 'Bengal: Rise and Growth of a Nationality', Social Scientist (New Delhi), 37 (August 1975). 6. 'The Equilibrium Theory of Arms Races: Reply to the Comments by F. E. Banks', Journal of Peace Research (Oslo), 12, 3 (March 1975). 7. (With Arabinda Biswas and S. K. Chaube), 'The Ethnic Composition of Calcutta,' Geographical Review of India, 38, 2 (June 1976). 8. 'Stability and Change in the Indian Political System,' Political Science Review (Jaipur), March 1977. 9. 'Alliance Stability in Balance of Power Systems: A Note,' American Political Science Review, September 1977. 10. 'From Balance of Power to Imperialism' in Barun De, ed., Perspectives in Social Sciences: Historical Dimensions (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1977). 11. (With S. K. Chaube and S. Datta Gupta), 'Teaching Political Science: The Debate on New 7 Orientations,' Journal of Higher Education (New Delhi), 2, 1 (1977). 12. 'The Naxalbari Legacy,' Seminar (New Delhi), September 1977. 13. 'The External Policy of the Indian State' in A. Mukhopadhyay, ed., Society and Politics in Contemporary India (Calcutta, 1978). 14. 'Violence, Revolution and Political Theory,' Teaching Politics (Delhi), 1-2 (1978). 15. 'Dhanatantrer Pratisthaparba o Hobbeser Rashtratattva' [The Age of the Rise of Capitalism and the Political Theory of Hobbes], Anya Artha (Calcutta), 12 (June 1978) and 13 (September 1978). 16. 'Thinking About Ideology: In Search of an Analytical Framework' in J. S. Bains and R. B. Jain, eds., Contemporary Political Theory (New Delhi: Radiant, 1980). 17. 'Rashtra o Samyavad' [The State and Communism], Ekshan (Calcutta), October 1980. 18. 'Problems of a Marxist Political Theory: Considerations on Colletti,' Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 16, 42-43 (October 1981).