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EDITORS Sherry B. Ortner, Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley te ee eee High Religion: ‘A Caltoral and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism bby Shorry B. Ortner ‘A Dlace in History: Social and Monumental Times in a Cretan Town by Michael Herzfeld The Textual Condition by Jerome J. MeGams Regulating the Socal: ‘The Welfare State and Local Politics n Imperial Germany by George Steinmetz Hanging without a Rope: [Nacrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland ‘by Mary Margaret Steedly ‘Modern Greek Lessons: ‘A Primer in Historical Constructivism by James Faubion ‘The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories by Partha Chatterjee =] mnceronstupesin CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY ‘THE NATION AND ITS FRAGMENTS COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL HISTORIES Partha Chatterjee enceron enversry ness. —=—=—=— PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY vectity Copyright © 1993 by Princeton Universtiy Peet Published by Psiceon Univsicy Press 44 Willa Sree, Peineeton, New frvey 08540 1 the Unced Kingdon: Princton Univessiey Press, ‘West Chichese, West Sussex ‘All RightsReserved ibrar of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Chater, Partha, 1947— “The nation and its fragments: Colona and posteoloail histories Pathe Chatesee. cm. — (Princeton ets in calttefpowedhinony) Tneluesbibographial references and index. ISBN 0-691-0330565 (lo alk paper) — ISBN 0-691-01945.6 (pbk alle paper) 1. Indis—History—eltsh ceeupation, 1768-1947. 2. India Hiscory—200h emary. 3. Nationalism—Lodia—Hsrory. 4. National lodio~-Bongal—History. Tide I Ser. DSM6RCH7 1993. 94.03 de20 95-15536 CP “This book has been composed in Adobe Sabon Penge Univrsiy Press Books are pried ‘on aie pape and meet the guidelines for permanence and durilty ofthe Commies on ‘Production Guidelines for Book Langeviy ‘the Coun on Library Resources Printed inthe United Sates of Amrica 13as79 8642 (bk 1357908642 > as oasis 9S "Cy? 1993 ‘TODAY WISH TO SAY TO YOU ONCE MORE WHAT I'VE TOLD YOU MANY, MANY TIMES BEFORE. Pare of the importance ofthe “fragmentary” point of view lies in this, tha it resist the deve for a shallow hhomogenisstion and struggles for other, potentially chee definitions af the “nation” and the fare polideal communi. —Gyanendca Pandey, “Tn Defence ofthe Fragment” Contents Proface and Acknowledgments Chapter One ‘Whose Imagined Communi Chapter Two ‘The Colonial Stace Chapter Three ‘The Nationalist Elite Chapter Four ‘The Nation and Its Pasts Chapter Five Histories and Nations Chapter Six i ‘The Nation and ts Women Chapter Seven ‘Women and the Nation Chapter Fight TThe Nation and Its Peasants Chapter Nine ‘The Nation and Ies Outeasts Chapter Ten ‘The National State ‘Chapter Eleven Communities and the Nation Notes Bibliography Index 4 35 76 95 116 135 158 173 200 220 241 263, 273 Preface and Acknowledgments By Now knowledgeable people all over the world have become familiar ‘with the charges leveled against the subject-centered rationality charac teristic of postEnlightenment modernity. This subject-centered reason, we have now been told, claims for iselfa singular universality by assert= ing its epistemic privilege over all ocher local, plural, and often incom- rmensurable knowledges; it proclaims its own unity and homogeneity by

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