Partha Chatterjee

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Partha Chatterjee is an internationally renowned Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial scholar.

He is the current director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City.

He studied political science at the University of Calcutta and the University of Rochester.

His books include:

  • The Nation and its Fragments (1993)
  • The Present History of West Bengal (1997)
  • The Politics of the Governed (2004)
  • A Princely Impostor (2002)
  • Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? (1986)

He has appeared in the 2007 Mira Nair film, The Namesake, based upon the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. He is credited as Reformed Hindu.

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