Partha Chatterjee

Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal

This text looks at the key features of modern communalism that developed in Bengal in the 1920s. While communalism is normally seen in terms of violent physical encounters, this book locates it in multiple sites, ranging from market disputes, concern over the decline in Hindu numbers, abductions, to near civil war over the right to play music before mosques.

Wages of freedom : fifty years of the Indian nation-state

This collection of 13 essays by some of the leading social scientists and political analysts in India - of both older and younger generations - critically views the development of the Indian nation-state since independence. Together they represent a set of critical perspectives that analyzes the central structures, foreign policy and the nation as viewed from the margins.

The Equilibrium Theory of Arms Races: Some Extensions

1.1. The basic arnms race model: ratios The simplest equilibrium model of bilateral arms races is that associated with Huntington.l This is known as the ratio goal model: the level of armaments on one side is directly proportional to the level of armaments of the other side. What is sought here is some desirable ratio of the armament levels. Symbolically, if the levels of armaments of the two countries are x and y, respectively, then the desired relationships are given by x=ay (1) y=bx (2) Represented geometrically, it is easy to show that this system would produce a stable equilibrium only when the slope of the line (2) is less than that of line (1). In other words, the condition for a stable equilibrium in the ratio goal model is

Modernity, Democracy and a Political Negotiation of Death

I must begin by thanking the organisers of this event for inviting me to speak at the School of Oriental and African Studies. It is indeed a great honour for me, especially when I think of the several generations of educated Indians in the last century and a half who have looked upon this university and this city as the fountainhead of modernity and their gateway to a new world of enlightenment and prosperity in their

A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xvii Chapter One: The Facts of the Matter 1 Chapter Two: An Estate Called Bhawal 15 Chapter Three: On Hunting and Other Sports 32 Chapter Four: What Happened in Darjeeling? 46 Chapter Five: First Brush with the Law 72 Chapter Six: The House on Lansdowne Road 81 Chapter Seven: A Fondness for Miracles 97 Chapter Eight: The Identity Puzzle 115 Chapter Nine: The Trial Begins 138 Chapter Ten: Darjeeling: The Plaintiffs Case 172 Chapter Eleven: Experts on Recognition 186 Chapter Twelve: For the Defense 207 Chapter Thirteen: The Climax 224 Chapter Fourteen: Reasonings 237 Chapter Fifteen: The Judgment 258 Chapter Sixteen: The Appeal 277 Chapter Seventeen: Razors Edge 307 Chapter Eighteen: The Decision 342 Chapter Nineteen: To London and Back 367 Notes 389 Bibliography 409 Index 417