Partha Chatterjee (scholar)

Partha Chatterjee (Bengali: পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born 5 November 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist.[2] He was the director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta from 1997 to 2007 and continues as an honorary professor of political science.[3] He is also a professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.[2]

Partha Chatterjee
পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Born (1947-11-05) 5 November 1947[1]
Alma materPresidency College, Calcutta
Calcutta University
University of Rochester

Chatterjee received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009[4]

Education

He completed a BA (1967) and an M.A (1970) in political science from Presidency College, Calcutta and Calcutta University respectively. He completed his Ph.D. (1972) in international relations from the University of Rochester.[1][5] His father, Santosh Chatterjee, was a Professor of Political Science at Calcutta University.

Career

He was the professor of political science and served as a director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and is currently a professor (honorary) of the CSSSC and professor of anthropology and South Asian studies at Columbia University in New York.[3] He was a founder-member of the Subaltern Studies Collective.[2]

He is a joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta. In addition to numerous books in English, he has published collections of essays in Bengali.

Publications

Books


Other Publications

See also

References

  1. Chatterjee, Partha. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. "Faculty page: Partha Chatterjee". Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. "Centre for Social Sciences, Calcutta". www.cssscal.org. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  4. "Past Laureates: Fukuoka Prize". Fukuoka. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  5. Wheeler, William. "Presidential Lectures: Partha Chatterjee". prelectur.stanford.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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