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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).
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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)
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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).
19. 'Bengal Politics and the Muslim Masses', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (London), March 1982.
20. 'Agrarian Relations and Communalism in Bengal 1926-1935' in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies I (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982).
21. 'Spontaneity and Organization in Peasant Movements in Bengal 1920-1947' in W. H. Morris- Jones and James Manor, ed., Political Violence (London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1982).
22. 'Caste and Politics in West Bengal' in Gail Omvedt, ed., Land, Caste and Politics in Indian States (Delhi: Authors Guild, 1982).
23. 'Peasants, Politics and Historiography: A Response', Social Scientist (New Delhi), May 1983.
24. 'Contribution to the Discussion' in Anouar Abdel-Malek and Anisuzzaman, eds., Culture and Thought (London: Macmillan, 1983).
25. 'More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry' in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies II (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).
26. 'Marxism and the Peasantry', Seminar (New Delhi), January 1984.
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27. 'Bewussteinsformen aufstandischer Bauern', Österreichische Zeitshcrift für Soziologie (Vienna), 9, 4 (1984).
28. 'Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society' in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies III (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984) (translated into Spanish and Japanese).
29. 'Modes of Power: Some Clarifications', Social Scientist (New Delhi) February 1985.
30. 'The Fruits of Macaulay's Poison Tree' in Ashok Mitra, ed., The Truth Unites: Essays in Tribute to Samar Sen (Calcutta: Subarnarekha, 1985).
31. 'Transferring a Political Theory: Early Nationalist Thought in India,' Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 21, 3 (January 1986).
32. 'The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal, 1920-1947,' Past and Present (Oxford), 110 (February 1986).
33. 'Culture and Power in the Thought of Bankimchandra' in Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L. Deutsch. eds., Political Thought in Modern India (New Delhi: Sage, 1986).
34. 'The Analysis of Indian Nationalist Discourse' in Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham, eds., Political Discourse (New Delhi: Sage, 1986).
35. 'Agrarian Transformation in Bengal: Class Structure and Class Struggle', Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Dhaka), 32, 1 (June 1987).
36. (translation into Bengali of) Section on J. B. Phear in Karl Marx, Ethnological Notebooks, Baromas (Calcutta), Autumn 1987.
37. 'On Gramsci's "Fundamental Mistake",' Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), June 1988.
38. (With Asok Sen), 'Planning and the Political Process in India: Duality and Differentiation' in Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ed., Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in Honour of Professor Bhabatosh Datta (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1988).
39. 'Caste and Subaltern Consciousness' in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies VI (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989).
40. 'Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India,' American Ethnologist, Summer 1989.
41. 'For an Indian History of Peasant Struggle', Social Scientist (New Delhi), August 1989.
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42. 'Re-presenting Colonialism,' Journal of Arts and Ideas (New Delhi), September 1989.
43. 'The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question' in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., Recasting Women (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989).
44. 'A Response to Taylor's Modes of Civil Society', Public Culture (Chicago), 3, 1 (Fall 1990).
45. 'Political Culture in Calcutta' in Sukanta Chaudhuri, ed., Calcutta: The Living City, vol. 2 (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1990).
46. 'Itihaser uttaradhikar' [The Legacy of History], Baromas (Calcutta), April 1991.
47. 'Whose Imagined Community?' Millennium (London), 20, 3 (Winter 1991).
48. 'History and the Nationalization of Hinduism,' Social Research (New York), 59, 1 (Spring 1992); reprinted in Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron, eds., Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity (New Delhi: Sage, 1995).
49. 'A Religion of Urban Domesticity: Sri Ramakrishna and the Calcutta Middle Class' in Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey, eds., Subaltern Studies VII (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992).
50. 'Their Own Words: An Essay for Edward Said' in Michael Sprinker, ed., Edward Said: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
51. 'The Need to Dissemble', Public Culture (Chicago), 6, 1 (Fall 1993).
52. 'Claims on the Past: The Emergence of Nationalist Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Bengal' in David Arnold and David Hardiman, eds., Subaltern Studies VIII (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994).
53. 'Development Planning and the Indian State' in T. J. Byres, ed., The State and Development Planning in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994).
54. 'Was There a Hegemonic Project of the Colonial State?' in Shula Marks and Dagmar Engels, eds., Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State and Society in Asia and Africa (London: British Academic Press, 1994).
55. 'Secularism and Toleration', Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), June 1994.
56. 'Amader adhunikata' [Our Modernity], Srijnan Halder Memorial Lecture, 1994 (also published in Yogasutra, Autumn 1994) (translated into English, Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese). 10
57. 'The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal' in Partha Chatterjee, ed., Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
58. 'A Science of Politics for the Colonized' in Partha Chatterjee, ed., Texts of Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
59. 'Religious Minorities and the Secular State,' Public Culture (Chicago), Fall 1995.
60. „Alternative Histories, Alternative Nations: Nationalism and Modern Historiography in Bengal‟ in Peter Schmidt and Tom Patterson, eds., Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings (Santa Fe: School of American Research, 1996).
61. 'Talking About Our Modernity in Two Languages,' Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2, 2 (1996).
62. 'Beyond the Nation? Or Within?' Economic and Political Weekly, January 4-11, 1997; Social Text, 56 (Fall 1998), pp. 57-69.
63. „A Political History of Independent India‟ in Partha Chatterjee, ed., State and Politics in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997).
64. „Community in the East‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 33, 6 (February 7, 1998).
65. „Civil Society and the Forms of Governmental Power: Extensions to Mamdani‟s Arguments‟, Political Power and Social Theory, 12 (1998), pp. 253-258.
66. „How We Loved the Bomb and Later Rued It‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 33, 24 (June 13, 1998).
67. „L‟État et la communauté en Orient‟, Critique Internationale (Paris), 2 (Winter 1999), pp. 1437-41.
68. „On Religious and Linguistic Nationalism: The Second Partition of Bengal‟ in Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Nationalism and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 112-128.
69. „Five Hundred Years of Fear and Love‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 33, 22 (May 30, 1998), pp. 1330-36.
70. „Modernity, Democracy and a Political Negotiation of Death‟, South Asia Research, 19 (1999), 1, pp. 103-119.
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71. „Two Poets and Death: On Civil Society in the Non-Christian World‟ in Timothy Mitchell, ed., Questions of Modernity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
72. „Anderson‟s Utopia‟, Diacritics, 29, 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 128-34.
73. „Democracy and the Violence of the State‟, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2 (2000), 1, pp. 7-21.
74. „On Civil and Political Society in Post-colonial Democracies‟ in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani, eds., Civil Society: History and Possibilities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 165-178.
75. „The Nation in Heterogenous Time‟, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 36, 4 (October-December 2001), pp. 399-418.
76. „Mahasantir pare bisva‟ [The World After the Great Peace], Bangadarsan, 3 (November 2001), pp. 55-74.
77. „Nationalism‟ in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (London: Elsevier, 2001).
78. „Subaltern History‟ in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (London: Elsevier, 2001).
79. „The Institutional Context of Social Science Research in India‟, Economic and Political Weekly, August 22, 2002.
80. „The Modern Social Sciences in India‟ in Theodore Porter and Dorothy Ross, eds., Cambridge History of Science, vol. 7, The Modern Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
81. „The Sacred Circulation of National Images‟ in Maria Antonella Pelizzari, ed., Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900 (Montreal: Canadian Center of Architecture, 2003).
82. „Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois At Last?‟ in Indira Chandrasekhar and Peter Seel, eds., body.city: Siting Contemporary Culture in India (New Delhi: Tulika, 2003).
83. „My Place in the Global Repubic of Letters‟ in Jackie Assayag and Véronique Bénéï, eds., At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003), pp. 44-51.
84. „Rabindrik neshan ki?‟ [What is Tagore‟s Nation?], Baromas, 25 (2003), pp. 1-23.
85. „Empire After Globalisation‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 39, 37 (September 11, 2004), 12
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86. „Rabindrik neshan prasange aro du-char katha‟ [More on Tagore‟s Nation], Baromas, 26 (2004).
87. „Empire and Nation Revisited: Fifty Years After Bandung‟, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7 (2005).
88. „B. R. Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship‟ in V. R. Mehta and Thomas Pantham, eds., Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations (New Delhi: Sage, 2005), pp. 73-90.
89. „Fasting for Bin Laden: Problems of Secularization in India‟ in David Scott and Charles Hirschkind, Problems of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).
90. „India‟s History from Below‟, Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2006.
91. „Critique of Popular Culture‟, Public Culture, 20, 2 (May 2008).
92. „Peasant Cultures of the Twenty-first Century‟, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 10 (2008).
93. „Democracy and Economic Transformation in India‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 43, 16 (April 19-25, 2008), pp. 53-62.
94. „Janapratinidhi‟, Baromas (Autumn 2008).
95. „Classes, Capital and Indian Democracy‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 43, 46 (November 15, 2008), pp. 89-93.
96. „Gramsci in the Twenty-first Century”, delivered as the Gramsci Lecture at Fondacion Antonio Gramsci Emilio-Romagna, Bologna, and to be published in Italian translation.
97. „An Equal Right to the City: Contests over Public Space in Calcutta‟ in Preben Kaarlsholm and Isabel Hofmeyer, eds., The Popular and the Public: Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008).
98. „The Coming Crisis in West Bengal‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 44, 9 (February 28, 2009), pp. 42-5.
99. „Terrorism: State Sovereignty and Militant Politics in India‟ in Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009), pp. 240-62.
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100. „Democracy and Subaltern Citizens in India‟ in Gyanendra Pandey, ed., Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 193-208.
101. „An Equal Right to the City: An Afterword from Kolkata‟ in Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker, eds., Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2009).
102. „Bangali samskritir bisvajanin itihas‟, Baromas (Autumn 2009), pp. 55-62.
103. „The State in India‟ in Neeraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds., The Oxford Companion to Indian Politics (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010).
104. „Reflections on “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Subaltern Studies After Spivak‟ in Rosalind C. Morris, ed., Can the Subaltern Speak: Reflections on the History of an Idea (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), pp. 81-86.
105. „Paschim banglay jati o janajati‟, Baromas (Autumn 2010), pp. 101-11.
106. „Tagore, China and the Critique of Nationalism‟, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 12, 2 (June 2011), pp. 271-283.
107. „The Curious Career of Liberalism in India‟, Modern Intellectual History, 8, 3 (September 2011), pp. 687-696.
108. „Abar Rammohan‟, Baromas (Autumn 2011), pp. 47-54.
109. „Democracy and Economic Transformation in India‟ in Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harris and Stuart Corbridge, eds., Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 17-34.
110. „Nationalism Today‟, Rethinking Marxism, 24, 1 (January 2012), pp. 9-25.
111. „Gramsci in the Twenty-first Century” in Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya, eds., The Postcolonial Gramsci (New York and London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 119-36.
112. „The Debate Over Political Society‟ in Ajay Gudavarthy, ed., Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society (London: Anthem Press, 2012).
113. „Democracy and Capitalism in India‟ in Partha Chatterjee and Ira Katznelson, eds., Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 283-311.
114. „The Movement Against Politics‟, Cultural Critique, 81 (Spring 2012), pp. 117-22.
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115. „After Subaltern Studies‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 47, 35 (September 1, 2012), pp. 44-49.
116. „Yogen mandaler ekakitva‟, Baromas (Autumn 2012), pp. 72-78.
117. „Historicizing Caste in Bengal Politics‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 47, 50 (December 15, 2012), pp. 69-70.
118. „Lineages of Political Society‟, in Michael Freeden and Andrew Vincent, eds., Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing Practices (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 70-87.
119. „Berlin, Tagore, and the Dubious Legitimacy of Nationalism‟ in Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols, eds., Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 155-81.
120. „The Social Theory of Contemporary Capitalism‟, World Financial Review (September October 2013), pp. 12-16.
121. „Subaltern Studies and Capital‟, Economic and Political Weekly, 48, 37 (September 14, 2013), pp. 69-75.
122. „Tres caminhos para a democracia radical‟, Lua Nova: Revista de cultura e politica (Rio de Janeiro), 89 (2013), pp. 169-190.
123. „Empire and Nation Today‟ in Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Amita Chatterjee, eds., Marxism: With and Beyond Marx (New Delhi: Routledge, 2014), pp. 136-46.
124. „Rethinking the Sociology of Capitalism‟ in Akeel Bilgrami, ed., Marx, Gandhi and Modernity: Essays Presented to Javeed Alam (New Delhi: Tulika, 2014), pp. 179-91.
125. „Introduction to Symposium on Postcolonial Legalism‟, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 34 (2014), 2, pp. 224-7.
126. „There is an Indian Ideology but It‟s Not This: A Response to Perry Anderson‟, Constellations, 21 (2014), 2, pp. 175-185.
127. „Partition and the Mysterious Disappearance of Caste in Bengal‟ in Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad and Kenneth Bo Nielsen, eds., The Politics of Caste in West Bengal (London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 83-102.
128. „Rethinking Postcolonial Capitalist Development: A Conversation between Kalyan Sanyal and Partha Chatterjee,‟ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36, 1 (May 2016), pp. 102-11. 15
129. „Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism: Some Observations from Indian History,‟ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36, 2 (August 2016), pp. 329-34.
130. „Theatre and the Publics of Democracy: Between Melodrama and Rational Realism,‟ Theatre Research International, 41, 3 (October 2016), pp. 218-30.
131. „Foreword‟ to Ranajit Guha, A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of the Permanent Settlement (new edition, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016).
132. „Democracia, populismo y la administracion politica de la acumulacion primiva‟ in Lucia Alvarez Enriquez, ed., Pueblo, Ciudadania y Sociedad Civil: Aportes para un debate (Mexico: Siglio XXI Editores, 2017), pp. 21-39.
133. „The Making of a Culture of Criticism‟ in Fear of Small Numbers (in Chinese) (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2017), pp. 1-19.
134. „Land and the Political Management of Primitive Accumulation‟ in Anthony P. D‟Costa and Achin Chakraborty, eds., The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 1-15.
135. „More on Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism‟, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37, 2 (August 2017), pp. 235-44.
136. „Response to Vishnu Pad and Thomas Hansen on Reading Achille Mbembe in Indian Majoritarian Politics‟, Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology website (November 1, 2017).
137. „The Legacy of Bandung‟ in Luis Esteva, Michael Fakhri and Vasuki Nesiah, eds., Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Papers presented at Conferences
December 1973 Indian History Congress, Chandigarh.
January 1974 Indian Political Science Conference, Tirupati.
December 1976 Indian Political Science Conference, Jodhpur.
December 1977 Indian Political Science Conference, Bangalore.
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January 1978 `Modernization in South Asia' at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
November 1979 `Nonalignment' organized by International Political Science Association at Calcutta.
March 1981 `Culture and Thought in Latin America' organized by United Nations University at Mexico City.
December 1981 `Culture and Thought in the Transformation of the World' organized by United Nations University at Algiers.
June 1982 `Agrarian Unrest in British India and British and French Africa,' Past and Present Conference, Oxford.
November 1982 `Subalterns in South Asian History,' Subaltern Studies Conference, Canberra.
March 1984 `Political Philosophy' organized by International Political Science Association at Baroda.
March 1984 `Marx's Philosophy of Man' at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
April 1985 `New Social Thought' organized by United Nations University at Cordoba, Spain.
October 1985 `Traditions, Translation, Transference' at Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris.
March 1986 `The Political Economy of Newly Industrialized Countries' organized by Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo at Yokohama, Japan.
October 1986 `Agrarian Change in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal', Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
December 1986 `Peasant Resistance in South Asia,' Subaltern Studies Conference, Calcutta.
September 1988 `Peasant Struggles' at Institute of Oriental Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
November 1988 `Tensions of Empire' organized by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at Mijas, Spain.
April 1989 `The State and Development Planning in India' at School of Oriental and 17
African Studies, London.
June 1989 `Colonialism and Consciousness in South Asia' organized by Social Science Research Council, New York, at the Isle of Thorn, Sussex.
May 1989 `Communalism in South Asia,' University of California at Santa Cruz.
July 1989 `Imperial Hegemony in Africa and India' organized by German Historical Institute at Berlin.
October 1989 `The State in the Middle East' organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, at Istanbul.
December 1989 `Religion and Subaltern Consciousness,' Subaltern Studies Conference, Calcutta.
February 1990 `History Today' at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
March 1990 `The State in the Middle East' organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, at Hanover, New Hampshire.
March 1990 `Nation and State' organized by Center for Psychosocial Studies at Chicago.
May 1990 `Civil Society and State' organized by Center for Psychosocial Studies at Chicago.
April 1990 Association of Asian Studies Conference, Chicago.
October 1990 `Contemporary Hinduism' at University of Tubingen.
January 1991 `Popular Movements, Popular Organizations, Democracy and the State' at Roskilde University, Denmark.
July 1991 `Ideology in Modern Indian Literature' at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
December 1991 `Colonial States' at New School for Social Research, New York.
April 1992 `Alternative Histories' at School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
January 1993 `Culture and Subalternity' organized by Anveshi Research Center and Subaltern Studies at Hyderabad. 18
January 1993 `Comparative Cultural Studies' organized by Roskilde University and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences at Bhubaneswar.
May 1993 `Nationalizing the Past' organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, at Goa.
May 1993 `Questions of Modernity' organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, at Cairo.
February 1994 `The Nation-state in South Asia' organized by Goethe Institut in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
March 1994 `Nationalism, Modernity and Urban Culture' at Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda.
May 1994 `Supranational Formations' organized by Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy.
June 1994 Workshop of the Nordic Academy of Advanced Study at Sandbjerg Manor, Denmark.
June 1994 `Transnationalism and Nation-state Building' organized by Wenner-Gren Foundation at Mijas, Spain.
October 1994 `Secularism and the Liberal Tradition' at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
February 1995 `Globalization' organized by the Chicago Humanities Institute at University of Chicago.
April 1995 `The State and Modernity in South Asia' at Tufts University, Boston.
June 1995 Subaltern Studies Conference at Colombo, Sri Lanka.
August 1995 'Democracy and Urban Culture' at Copenhagen, Denmark.
November 1995 'Religious Nationalism in Europe and Asia' at the University of Amsterdam.
November 1995 Workshop on 'Cultures of Modernity' organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences at Mysore.
November 1995 'Rethinking the Enlightenment' at the Max Planck Institute for the History 19
of Science, Berlin.
April 1996 'Questions of Modernity' at the Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, New York.
May 1996 'The Historian, Nationalism and the End of Empire' at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University.
June 1996 'The Rainbow Nation: South Africa in Comparative Perspective' at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
October 1996 'History and Nation-building in Central Asia' organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, in Tashkent.
November 1996 'Culture at Large: Partha Chatterjee Meets His Interlocutors', invited session in Social and Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco.
November 1996 'Rethinking the Enlightenment' at the Collegium Budapest, Budapest.
December 1996 'Rethinking the Third World' at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
May 1997 „History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences‟, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
August 1997 State of the Discipline Lecture on „Community‟ at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association at Seoul, South Korea.
October 1997 „Nationalism to Subalternity: Historiography in Africa and India‟ at the University of Cape Town.
November 1997 „India since Independence‟ at the University of Bologna.
November 1997 „Theory After Postcoloniality‟ at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
January 1998 Workshop on „Culture and the Disciplines‟ organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, in Bhopal.
February 1998 „Cultural Consequences of Globalization: The Case of Music‟ organized by the Japan Foundation and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta.
March 1998 „Media and Mediation in Politics of Culture‟ organized by the Centre for 20
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago in Calcutta.
May 1998 Keynote address at Conference on „Europe and Asia: Five Hundred Years‟ in Calicut
October 1998 „Subaltern Studies‟ at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
November 1998 The SOAS Annual Lecture on South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
November 1998 „Life Histories in South Asia‟ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
December 1998 American Anthropological Association annual meetings at Philadelphia
December 1998 „Theories of Society‟ at the University of Manchester, UK
January 1999 Workshop on „Public Culture‟ organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta at Khajuraho.
February 1999 „History and the Present‟ at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
April 1999 „Minority Histories‟ at Princeton University
May 1999 „Urban Culture and Democracy‟ organized by Roskilde University at Bornholm, Denmark
October 1999 „Assessments of Gandhi‟ at Columbia University, New York
October 1999 „History and Anthropology‟ at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
January 2000 „Research and Methodology: Content and Context‟ at the Americal University Center, Cairo
January 2000 „Social Development Research‟ at the University of Wales, Swansea
February 2000 „Asian Modernities‟ at the Centre for the Study of Society and Culture, Bangalore
March 2000 „Social Development Research‟ at the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Research, Bhubaneswar
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May 2000 „Life Histories in South Asia‟ at the Schol of Oriental and African Studies, London
June 2000 „The Post-Weberian State‟ at the Centre d‟Études des Sciences Politiques, Paris
July 2000 „Social Development Research in West Bengal‟ at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
November 2000 „Multiple Modernities‟ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
December 2000 „Rethinking Sovereignty‟ organized by Roskilde University at Sanbjerg Manor, Sonderberg, Denmark
February 2001 Workshop on „Cultural Sites and Spaces‟ organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Puri
May 2001 „Nationalism and the State‟ at Bilgi University, Istanbul
November 2001 „Human Rights‟ at Columbia University
January 2002 Workshop on „Postcolonial Cultures‟ organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Santiniketan
March 2002 Workshop on „The City and the Archive‟ at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
October 2002 Symposium on „Caste in Contemporary India‟ at Columbia University
February 2003 Workshop on „Citizenship and Identities‟ organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Goa
March 2003 Symposium on „Social Science in the Indian Languages‟ organized by Lokniti at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
April 2003 Workshop on „The Social Situation in India‟ at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
June 2003 Workshop on „Democracy Survey in South Asia‟, organized by CSDS and Lokniti, New Delhi, at Dhulikhel, Nepal
June 2003 Workshop on „Development and Justice‟, organized by the Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, at Calcutta 22
June 2003 Conference on „Empires Past and Present‟ at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
August 2003 Cultural Studies Workshop at the Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda
October 2003 Workshop on „Politics as the Site of the Modern‟ at the Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin
January 2004 Subaltern Studies Conference on „Lives of Democracy‟ at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and University of Delhi
February 2004 Workshop on „The Cultural Turn Revisited‟ organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Bangalore
April 2004 Conference on “The City” at Lahore University of Management, Lahore
April 2004 Conference on “The Urban Poor in South Asia and the Middle East” at Aga Khan University, Karachi
May 2004 Conference on “Empire and Terror” at Columbia University, New York
June 2004 Workshop on “Words in Motion” organized by the Social Science Research Council at Fez, Morocco
July 2004 Social Science Workshop organized by the Easter and North-Eastern regional Centres of the Indian Council of Social Science Research at North-East Hill University, Shillong
September 2004 Conference on “Popular Cultures” at Roskilde University, Denmark
October 2004 Conference on “Rethinking the Left” at Columbia University, New York
October 2004 Conference on “Rethinking the US State” organized by the Wenner-Gren Foundation of Anthropological Research at Newburgh, New York
November 2004 Conference on “Ethnographies of the Political” at Columbia University, New York
December 2004 Conference on “History in the Vernacular” at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
January 2005 Conference on “Memory, Identity, History” at the Centre for the Study of 23
Developing Societies, Delhi
January 2005 Cultural Studies Workshop organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Bhubaneswar
May 2005 Conference on “Islam and Modernity” at the University of Washington at Seattle
September 2005 Conference on “Nations Unlimited” at Stavanger, Norway
October 2005 Conference on “International Collaborations in Social Science Research” at New York
October 2005 Conference on “Political Theologies” organized by the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, New York
December 2005 Conference on „What Is Enchantment?‟ at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York
January 2006 Conference on „Economic Reforms and Democracy‟ at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
January 2006 Cultural Studies Workshop of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, held in Goa
February 2006 Conference on „A Singular Modernity?‟ organized by the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York
March 2006 Workshop on “Tocqueville in America and India” at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
May 2006 Workshop on “Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies” at Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru
May 2006 Workshop on “Postcolonial Transformations” at Universidad Central de Venezuela at Caracas, Venezuela
August 2006 Conference on “Caste and Democracy” organized by the Dalit Intellectual Collective at Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad
September 2006 Conference on “A Singular Modernity?” organized by the Southern Asian Insitute and the Heyman Center, Columbia University
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October 2006 Conference on “Subaltern Citizens” at Emory University, Atlanta
October 2006 Conference on Art Institutions and Collections in South Asia, Department of Art History, Columbia University
November 2006 Workshop on Comparative Social Science Research in South Asia organized by the Social Science Research Council, New York, at Goa
June 2007 Keynote Address at the Asian International Cultural Studies Conference at Shanghai University, Shanghai
July 2007 Workshop on “Tocqueville in India and America”, sponsored by the Americal Political Science Association, at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
September 2007 Conference on “The Great Transformation: Indian Political Economy”, organized by New School for Social Research, New York, and London School of Economics, at Columbia University, New York
October 2007 Workshop on “Democracy in India and Beyond” at Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
November 2007 Conference on “Migration in Europe” at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
December 2007 Conference on “Subaltern-Citizens” at Emory University, Atlanta
January 2008 Conference on “Gandhi‟s Absence”, organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, at Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad
February 2008 Cultural Studies Workshop, organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Pune
February 2008 Workshop on “Disciplinary Formations and the Social Sciences in Post- 1947 India” at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
April 2008 Workshop on “Disciplinary Innovations in the Social Sciences” at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York
May 2008 Workshop on “Tocqueville and Democracy in US and India” at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
June 2008 Conference on “Comparing Judicial Systems in India and Europe” at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin. 25
June 2008 Workshop on “Research Priorities in the Social Sciences” at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
July 2008 Social Science Training Workshop at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
July 2008 Workshop on “Indian Intellectual History” at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
October 2008 Conference on “Isaiah Berlin and Concepts of Liberty” at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
December 2008 Conference on “Modernities in South Asia” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
January 2009 Social Science Advanced Training workshop at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
February 2009 Cultural Studies Workshop, organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
March 2009 Workshop on „Democracy in United States and India‟ at the Department of Government, Harvard University.
April 2009 Workshop on „Gandhi and Modernity‟ at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
April 2009 Conference on “Postcolonial Democracy” at the New School for social Research, New York
June 2009 Workshop on “Minority Cultures” at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
July 2009 Workshop on “Social Science Research in India” at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
September 2009 Conference on “Cities and War” organized by the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
November 2009 Keynote speaker at Conference on “Rethinking Marxism” at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
November 2009 Workshop on “Beyond Accumulation” at the New School for Social 26
Research, New York
November 2009 Workshop on “The Present State of the Dalit Question” at the South Asia Institute, Columbia University
November 2009 Conference on “Religious Accommodation in Pre-Colonial South Asia” at Columbia University
January 2010 Conference on “New Cultural Histories” at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
January 2010 Workshop on “Rule of Law and Democracy” organized by the Europe- India Advanced Research Network at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
February 2010 Cultural Studies Workshop organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Santiniketan
March 2010 Workshop on “Reading Partha Chatterjee” at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
April 2010 Panel discussion on “Words in Motion” organized by the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
July 2010 Papiya Ghosh Memorial Workshop at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
October 2010 Panel discussion on “Words in Motion” at the Asia Society, New York
January 2011 Conference on “Translations” at the Department of English, Delhi University
January 2011 Conference on “Commodities and Colony” at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
January 2011 Cultural Studies Workshop organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, at Jaipur
February 2011 Workshop on Political Theory, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Goa
September 2011 Conference on “Nepal at the Crossroads”, New School, New York
November 2011 Workshop on “Political Theory and Anthropology: A Conversation with 27
Partha Chatterjee” at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
January 2012 Conference on “Economic Growth in West Bengal: Prospects and Priorities” at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
March 2012 Workshop on “Governmentality and Political Society: Engaging with the Recent Writings of Partha Chatterjee” at the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta
March 2012 Conference on “Marxism: Marx and Beyond” at Jadavpur University and the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
April 2012 Workshop on “Trade and Development: The Contributions of Kalyan Sanyal” at Jadavpur University.
September 2012 Discussion on “Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States” at the South Asia Institute, Columbia University
October 2012 Panel on “Sovereignty and Human Rights” at Columbia Law School
November 2012 Panel on “B. R. Ambedkar and the Indian Republic” at Asia society, new York.
November 2012 Panel on “Empire in West Africa” at the Department of History, Columbia University
January 2013 Workshop on “Theatre and Performance Studies” at the Schol of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
January 2013 Cultural Studies Workshop organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences at Santiniketan
April 2013 Panel on “Marxism and the Legacy of Subaltern Studies” at the Historical Materialism Conference at New York University
June 2013 Workshop on “Violence and Non-violence” at the Mahindra Humanities Institute, Harvard University
June 2013 Conference on “Territorial Sovereignty” at the German Historical Institute, London
September 2013 Workshop on “Civil Society in Europe and Asia”, University of York, UK 28
October 2013 Conference on “Early Modern South Asia” at Pennsylvania State University
October 2013 Chaired panel on “Sedition in Colonial India‟ at the South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison
November 2013 Chaired panel at conference on “Mercantilism in History” at the Department of History, Columbia University
December 2013 Chaired panel on “Merchants and Trade in Indian History” organized by Aligarh Historians‟ Society at Indian History Congress, Cuttack
February 2014 Conference on “Maoism in India” at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
March 2014 Conference on „The Return of the Land Question” at Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
March 2014 Cultural Studies Workshop organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta at Santiniketan
May 2014 Workshop on „Violence and Non-violence‟ at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
June 2014 Workshop on „Urban Poverty and Social Movements‟ at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California at Berkeley
July 2014 Workshop on „Inequality and Democracy‟ at the University of Kyoto
August 2014 Workshop on „Religious Accommodation and Conflict in India‟ at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
October 2014 Workshop on „Global Governance‟, Committee on Global Thought , Columbia University
October 2014 Conference on „Foucault after 1984‟ at Yale University
November 2014 Symposium on „Indian Elections 2014: What Next?‟ at Columbia University
March 2015 Conference on „Is there an Adequate Theory of Justice?‟ at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
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September 2015 Conference on „Sovereignty and Property‟ at the Columbia Law School
October 2015 Seminar on “Governmentality in the East‟ at Asian Research Center, University of Toronto
November 2015 Colloquium Foucault 13/13 session on „Society Must Be Defended‟ at the Humanities Institute, Columbia University
December 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Growth in West Bengal‟ at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
March 2016 Cultural Studies Workshop organized in Kolkata by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
March 2016 Lecture on „Caste Today‟ at workshop on Caste and Minorities at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
May 2016 Conference on Prospects for India organized by the South Asia Center, Harvard University
June 2016 Conference on Development in China and India at Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou
August 2016 Conference on Political Society in Africa at the University of Cape Town
August 2016 Conference on „Citizens and Subjects‟ at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town
December 2016 Workshop on “Third World Project in a Post-Bandung World‟ at the Capital Normal University, Beijing
December 2016 Conference on „Imagination in the Post-Bandung Era‟ at Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou
April 2017 Conference on „Race, Law and Exception‟, Department of History, Columbia University
May 2017 International conference on Antonio Gramsci in Rome, organized by Fondazione Gramsci
Invited Talks and Lectures
August 1981 Jadavpur University, Calcutta. 30
February 1982 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.
March 1982 School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
April 1982 Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.
April 1982 University of Manchester.
May 1982 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
May 1982 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.
March 1985 University of Calcutta.
March 1986 Faculty of General Studies, University of Tokyo.
January 1988 McGill University, Montreal.
January 1988 University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
January 1988 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
January 1988 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan.
January 1988 University of Pittsburgh.
February 1988 St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
February 1988 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
February 1988 University of California at Santa Cruz.
November 1988 St. Antony's College, Oxford.
May 1989 University of California at Berkeley.
May 1989 Stanford University.
March 1990 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
March 1990 New School for Social Research, New York.
April 1990 Columbia University, New York. 31
April 1990 University of Chicago.
April 1990 Tufts University, Boston.
April 1990 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
April 1990 University of Pittsburgh.
April 1990 University of California at Berkeley.
April 1990 New York Academy of Sciences, New York.
April 1990 University of Rochester.
May 1990 Princeton University.
October 1991 University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
November 1991 Columbia University, New York.
November 1991 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
December 1991 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
December 1991 Princeton University.
January 1992 University of California at Los Angeles.
April 1992 University of Wisconsin at Madison.
October 1993 University of Leiden.
October 1993 University of Amsterdam.
November 1993 Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
November 1993 Roskilde University, Denmark.
January 1994 Department of History, University of Calcutta.
February 1994 University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
March 1994 Department of History, University of Calcutta. 32
September 1994 The Srijnan Halder Memorial Lecture, Calcutta.
November 1994 Department of History, University of Calcutta.
January 1995 University of Michigan.
February 1995 Columbia University, New York.
February 1995 University of Chicago.
March 1995 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 1995 Princeton University.
April 1995 University of Chicago.
December 1995 Department of History, University of Calcutta
April 1996 New York University, New York
May 1996 Faculty of Law, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
May 1996 Department of History, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
May 1996 Faculty of Social Sciences, Université de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan
August 1996 Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad
October 1997 University of North Carolina
October 1997 Duke University
October 1997 New York University
October 1997 University of Pennsylvania
November 1997 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
December 1997 Columbia University
June 1998 Laboratoire Anthropologie, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique at the Maison des Sciences de l‟Homme, Paris
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October 1998 Columbia University
November 1998 New York University
November 1999 Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
June 2000 Distinguished lecture series for the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of China at National Tsinghua University, Taipei
April 2001 Keynote lecture at conference on „Media and Public Culture‟ at the University of Manchester
June 2001 Keynote address at conference on „Narrating the Nation‟ organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies at University College, London
August 2001 The Susobhan Sarkar Memorial Lecture organized by the Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad [West Bengal History Council] at Presidency College, Calcutta
October 2001 Keynote lecture at the South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
November 2001 The Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures at Columbia University, New York
April 2002 Keynote lecture at conference on „Siting Secularism‟ at Oberlin College, Ohio
August 2002 Golden Jubilee Lecture at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
August 2002 Keynote address at conference on „Human Rights‟ organized by the South Asia Foundation for Human Rights at Kathmandu
October 2002 Centre for East Asian Studies, New York University
January 2003 Keynote lecture at the „City One‟ conference organized by SARAI at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
April 2003 Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
April 2003 The Sunil Kumar Sen Memorial Lecture at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta
July 2003 Keynote address at the conference on „Nation and Postcoloniality‟ at 34
Trinity College, Dublin
August 2003 Lecture-discussion at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, on A Princely Impostor?
August 2003 Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
November 2003 Humanities Center, University of Chicago
November 2003 Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar on Democracy, Harvard University
February 2004 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore March 2004 Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
March 2004 Universidade Faderal da Brasilia
March 2004 Fondação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife
March 2004 Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Salvador
March 2004 Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Salvador
March 2004 CEBRAP, São Paolo
June 2004 North-East Hill University, Shillong
September 2004 Center for Urban Studies, University of California at Berkeley
October 2004 Millennium series lecture at Columbia University, New York
October 2004 Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York
December 2004 Convocation Address, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
April 2005 Buddhadeva Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture at Mahabodhi Society, Calcutta
May 2005 Center for the Humanities, University of Washington at Seattle
September 2005 New School for Social Research, New York
September 2005 International Center of Advanced Study, New York University
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October 2005 Plenary lecture at North American Conference of British Studies, Denver
November 2005 Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
February 2006 Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research, Princeton University
February 2006 Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
February 2006 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
April 2006 Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
April 2006 Center for Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
April 2006 Keynote lecture at Conference on „The Social and Material Life of Indian Cinema‟ organized by New York University at the Asia Society, New York
May 2006 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
May 2006 Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru
May 2006 Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Peru. Lima
May 2006 Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia
May 2006 Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
May 2006 Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
May 2006 Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito, Ecuador
June 2006 Two lectures at course on “Modern and Contemporary History” of the European University held at Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Federico II University of Naples
Juky 2006 Bogazici University, Istanbul
July 2006 Keynote address at Crossroads Conference of the International Cultural Studies Asociation at Istanbul
August 2006 Plenary lecture at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, London
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October 2006 Center for International Studies, Emory University, Atlanta
December 2006 Department of Political Science, Columbia University
March 2007 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
April 2007 Department of History, Columbia University
April 2007 Department of Political Science, Columbia University
May 2007 ICSSR Distinguished Lecture, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Development Studies, Guwahati
May 2007 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
June 2007 Department of History, Tsinghua University, Beijing
June 2007 Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing
August 2007 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
October 2007 Khemka Lecture at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
October 2007 School of International Affairs, Yale University, New Haven
October 2007 Brown University, Providence
November 2007 Presidential Lecture, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
November 2007 Gramsci Lecture at Fondacion Antonio Gramsci Emilio-Romagna, Bologna
December 2007 Distinguished Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta
January 2008 Kale Memorial Lecture at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune
February 2008 Distinguished Lecture, Delhi School of Economics and Sociology, University of Delhi
March 2008 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
March 2008 Plenary address at conference on “International Aid in the North and the 37
South” at the London School of Economics, London
March 2008 Pranabesh Sen Memorial Lecture at the Bangla Academy, Kolkata
April 2008 Department of History, Columbia University
October 2008 Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
November 2008 David Smith Lecture at Queen Mary, University of London
November 2008 Department of Development Studies, London School of Economics, London
January 2009 Three lectures at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo
April 2009 Malcolm Adiseshiah Lecture at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
May 2009 Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
May 2009 Department of Politics, University of Oxford
July 2009 Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
September 2009 Fukuoka University, Japan
October 2009 Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
December 2009 Graduate Center, City University of New York
February 2010 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
March 2010 School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
March 2010 Nirman Foundation Lecture at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
October 2010 Shanghai Museum of Art
November 2010 Chinese National Academy of Art, Hangzhou
November 2010 Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
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February 2011 B. N. Ganguly Memorial Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
April 2011 New School for Social Research, New York
May 2011 Humanities Center, Harvard University
September 2011 El Colegio de México, Mexico City
September 2011 Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Mexico City
October 2011 Tufts University, Boston
October 2011 Stanford University
January 2012 Keynote lecture at conference on “Sports and National Culture” at Jadavpur University, Kolkata
February 2012 Valedictory lecture at conference on “Social Science Research in India” organized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
February 2012 Plenary lecture at the World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in New Delhi
March 2012 Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
April 2012 B. R. Ambedkar University, New Delhi
April 2012 Keynote lecture at conference on “After Subaltern Studies” at Princeton University
June 2012 Three lectures at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
June 2012 Keynote lecture at workshop on “Voices of Resistance” at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
June 2012 University of Hyderabad
September 2012 Lecture on “The Black Hole of Empire” at Brown University
October 2012 Lecture on “The Colonial City in the Postcolonial Era” at Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
October 2012 Lecture on “Culture and the New Forms of Global Power” at conference 39
on “Modern Asian Thought” at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
January 2013 Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
January 2013 Centre for Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
February 2013 Convocation Address at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
April 2013 Lecture on “The Colonial City in the Postcolonial Era” at Jizhou Ann, Taipei, Taiwan
April 2013 Lecture on “The Modern State and Empire” at Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
April 2013 Lecture on “Sports and Collective Identity: The Case of Football” at Kaohsiung Art Gallery, Taiwan
April 2013 Gautam Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture at Bangla Academy, Kolkata
June 2013 Keynote address at Conference on Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
July 2013 Distinguished Lecture at the Columbia University Global Center at Mumbai
July 2013 Three lectures at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Cape Town
August 2013 Lecture at the Department of History, University of Cape Town
August 2013 Lecture at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town
September 2013 Distinguished Lecture at the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
November 2013 Conversations on Memory with Orhan Pamuk and Joseph LeRoux, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
November 2013 “Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Conversation with Partha Chatterjee” at the Department of Political Science, Yale University
November 2013 Lecture at the Department of History, Princeton University 40
January 2014 Keynote address at conference on “Changing Frontiers of Political Theory” at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
January 2014 Keynote Address at conference on “Indian Political Imaginaries” organized by the American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi
March 2014 Kapil Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture organized by the Association for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Calcutta
May 2014 Three lectures at Center for Critical Thought at the University of California at Irvine
June 2014 Lecture at the Center for South Asia, University of California at Los Angeles
July 2014 Keynote lecture at conference on „Inequality and Democracy in Asia‟ at the University of Tokyo
September 2014 Lecture at the Gallatin Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University
September 2014 Lecture on „Liberalism in the Eastern Colony‟ at the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
September 2014 Lecture at the Center for Globalization Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York
September 2014 Keynote lecture at the conference on „Comparative Colonialisms‟ at Tufts University, Boston
October 2014 Lecture at the Political Theory Seminar, Hunter College, New York
October 2014 Lecture on „International Law and the Pedagogy of Violence‟ at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
October 2014 Lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
November 2014 Three lectures at the University of San Martin, Buenos Aires
February 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Exploring Historical Traditions in India‟ at Assam University, Silchar
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February 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „The Art of Dissemination: Writing Cultures‟ organized by Asia Art Archive at CSSSC, Kolkata
April 2015 Distinguished lecture at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
April 2015 Lecture at Critical Theory Program at University of California, Berkeley
June 2015 Lecture at Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris
June 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Historians and the Margins: From North America to the Former Colonies‟ at Université de Paris XIII
June 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World‟ at the British Academy, London
July 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Theatre and Democracy” organized by the International Federation of Theatre Researchers at the University of Hyderabad
July 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „The Force of Life: Migration in Asia‟ at the National University of Singapore
July 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „Political Economy of Growth‟ organized by the International Growth Centre, London School of Economics, in Patna
September 2015 Talk on “Outline of a Postcolonial Theory of Justice‟ at the Colloquium on Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University
October 2015 Christopher Ondaatje Lecture at the University of Toronto
October 2015 Keynote lecture at conference on „The People, the Citizen and Civil Society‟ at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), Mexico City
November 2015 Lecture on „An Eastern Rising in an Eastern Colony‟ at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
April 2016 Lecture on „Primitive Accumulation‟ at the Historical Materialism Centre at Jadavpur University
June 2016 Lecture on Primitive Accumulation in India at Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou
October 2016 Lecture on „Governmentality in the East‟ at the Department of History, 42
Stony Brook University
February 2017 Kumar Roy Memorial Lecture on Theatre, organized by Bohuroopee Theatre Group at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata
March 2017 Three distinguished lectures on Modern South Asian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi
May 2017 Department of History and Culture, University of Bologna
Membership of Academic and Professional Bodies
Joint Editor, Baromas (Calcutta).
Member, Editorial Board, Indian Economic and Social History Review.
Member, International Editorial Board, Postcolonial Studies
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
General Editor, Book series South Asia in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press
Member, Board of Governors, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Activities in the Theatre
1978-1990 Over 400 nights of performance as actor on stage in Calcutta in about a dozen stage productions.
1981-2002 Composed music for over a dozen stage productions in Calcutta. Twice awarded prizes (1984 and 1996) for best music composition of the year by the West Bengal Theatre Academy.
Published plays (in Bengali, all produced on stage)
Kono Ekdin (1983)
Ramnidhi (1986)
Svapnalabdha (1989)
Kacher Putul (1990) 43
Ajker Hajabarala (1995)
Shatabdir Shesh (1999)
Chokher Bali (2005)
Hutomer Kalikata Darsan or A Hooting Owl’s Guide to Calcutta (2015)
Prize
Fukuoka Prize for Contribution to the Study of Asian Culture, 2009