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Title: Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse by Partha Chatterjee ISBN: 0-8166-2311-2 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: a decent book once you cut through all the jargon
Comment: If it isn't obvious from the title of this book that this is going to be full of postmodern jargon, it becomes clear quite quickly that Chaterjee prefers difficult terms like 'problematic', 'thematic' and 'discourse' without always defining them - he even admits his admiration for Rorty, Barthes, Foucault and Derrida.
Nonetheless, underneath all of this verbiage is a strong and convincing argument about the three stages of nationalism in India: the moment of departure (epitomized by Bankimchandra Chatttopadhyay), the moment of manoeuvre (Gandhi) and the moment of arrival (Nehru). Chatterjee clearly shows how nationalism in India was akin to Gramsci's concept of the 'passive revolution' - i.e. merely a drive towards independence, not towards transforming or breaking up colonial instutions. He argues that, instead of supporting nationalism, we should instead challenge the marriage between reason and capital.
From the title of this book one might expect Chatterjee to draw links to other anti-colonial nationalisms but he doesn't; rather he only discusses India (not even other parts of South Asia). While this approach doesn't really make this book too useful for examining anti-colonial nationalisms in general, for someone like me who has never read a book on Indian nationalism this is a good introduction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent discussion of Nationalism's underlying assumptions
Comment: Chatterjee does and excellent job of clearly explaining the underlying causes and assumptions of nationalism. How they originate in the west and based on specific conceptions of time, reason, progress, and science. Since these conceptions are not universal their application through nationalism may not be best served by being universal. Chatterjee further goes to give a clear outline of how he thinks nationalist discourse in the colonial world was formed. I definetly recommed this one if your interested in the subject.
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Title: The Nation and Its Fragments by Partha Chatterjee ISBN: 0691019436 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 18 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.59 |
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Title: Provincializing Europe by Dipesh Chakrabarty ISBN: 0691049092 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Convergences - Inventories of the Present) by Ranajit Guha ISBN: 0674214838 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Gauri Viswanathan ISBN: 0195646401 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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