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
- The Current History of West Bengal
- The Politics of the Governed
- A Princely Impostor
- Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?
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.