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...Kumkum Chatterjee Abstract This paper explores the nature and understandings of history, or itihasa/Purana, in eighteenth-century India using two Mangalkabya narratives. These materials belong to a large genre of performance narratives, usually devoted to eulogizing various deities, that were...

...Elizabeth Chatterjee Abstract Much scholarship extrapolates global narratives of the Anthropocene from the “fossil capitalism” of European imperial powers. This analysis deploys the alternative lens of grid electricity—the great macro-technology of the twentieth century—to reevaluate the dynamics...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In recent analyses of nationalism in colonial South Asia, Partha Chatterjee and Tanika Sarkar, among others, have argued that as a result of colonial domination in the “public sphere”—the realm of the state and civil society—Indian male nationalists deployed the “private...

... Partha Chatterjee's notion of the inner domain. Chatterjee focused on Bengali cultural nationalism and its complex relation to Western hegemony. He considered Bengal, the metropolis of the British Raj, to be representative of colonized nations. This article reveals that elsewhere in South Asia—Sri Lanka...

...Indrani Chatterjee The introduction asks two key methodological questions. One is about the relation between word and image. The answers assembled here range impressively across a gamut of interpretations. On one side is Maria Holtrop's reading (89–94) of Gerard Wigmana's painting of the family...

...Kumkum Chatterjee Society, Economy, and the Market: Commercialization in Rural Bengal, c. 1760–1800 . By Rajat Datta . New Delhi : Manohar , 2000 . 376 pp. Rs 700 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1403 narrator...

...Kumkum Chatterjee BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 409 and to recognize that the text primarily deals with the latter. To treat it as mythic, in part, is not to dismiss it as unreal but to recognize that it may belong as much to the imaginative (as distinguished from the imaginary) domain...

...Dipankar Chatterjee The Hindu Religious Tradition: A Philosophical Approach . By Pratima Bowes . London and Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1978 . xii, 322 pp. Notes, Index. $18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 618 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES may...

...Kumkum Chatterjee The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757–1857 . Edited by Michael H. Fisher . Oxford in India Readings. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 313 pp. $23.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Kumkum Chatterjee From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth Century Bengal . By Sushil Chaudhury . New Delhi : Manohar , 1995 . xvi, 377 pp. $26.00(cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 251 With this meticulously argued, often...

...Indrani Chatterjee En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives . By Sangeeta Ray . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2000 . viii, 198 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 591 values...

...Gayatri Chatterjee The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Popular Cinema . Edited by Ashish Nandy . New York : St. Martin's Press , Zed Books, 1999 . ix, 259 pp. $22.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Indrani Chatterjee Gender and Politics in India . Edited by Nivedita Menon . Themes in Politics Series. General Editors Rajeev Bhargava, Partha Chatterjee. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xi, 539 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000...

...Indrani Chatterjee Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval and Modern India . Edited by Mandakranta Bose . New York , Oxford University Press , 2000 . xxi, 346 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 1062 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Partha Chatterjee Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure, and Politics, 1919–1947 . By Sugata Bose . Cambridge Studies on South Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . xii, 306 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 670...

...Indrani Chatterjee Abstract From the 1960s to the present, scholars of Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and other regional literatures and cultures have spelled out their differences with either their Freudian or Foucauldian counterparts on the articulation of love, desire, and embodiment...

...Kumkum Chatterjee Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace . By Sudipta Sen . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . iv, 225 pp. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 212...

...; Bilgrami 1994; Chatterjee 1994). Given these important methodological and theoretical developments, which focus on the construction of community identities, are there distinctive contributions that students of Indian politics can make to the study of community conflicts? The essays in this symposium...

... to a patriotic poem, Palashir Yuddha (1875), accused of ahistoricality, as well as to a defense made by Bengal's first professional historian, Jadunath Sarkar, against a similar charge in the context of Bankimchandra Chatterjee's historical novels. That the relationship of creativity to history is a continuing...

...Sumathi Ramaswamy Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse . By Partha Chatterjee . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . 1993 . Second impression. 181 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 960 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...