Partha Chatterjee

Partha Chatterjee is an honorary professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and professor emeritus of anthropology at Columbia University, New York. Among his many books in English and Bengali are Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986), The Nation and Its Fragments (1993), The Politics of the Governed (2004), The Black Hole of Empire (2012), and I Am the People (2019). He received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009.