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• Title:The politics of the governed : reflections on popular politics in most of the world / Partha Chatterjee.
  
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• Author/Creator:Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: JQ281 .C48 2004
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Politics, Practical--India.
  Political participation--India.
  Democracy--India.
  Equality--India.
  Citizenship--India.
  
• Description:xi, 173 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
  
• Summary:"This book argues that the rise of ethnic or identity politics - particularly in the postcolonial world - is a consequence of new techniques of governmental administration. Using contemporary examples from India, the book examines the different forms taken by the politics of the governed. Many of these operate outside of the traditionally defined arena of civil society and the formal legal institutions of the state. This book considers the global conditions within which such local forms of popular politics have appeared and shows us how both community and global society have been transformed. Chatterjee's analysis explores the strategic as well as the ethical dimensions of the new democratic politics of rights, claims, and entitlements of population groups and permits a new understanding of the dynamics of world politics both before and after the events of September 11, 2001." "The Politics of the Governed consists of three essays, originally given as the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures at Columbia University in November 2001, and four additional essays that complement and extend the analyses presented there. By combining these essays between the covers of a single volume, Chatterjee has given us a major and urgent work that provides a full perspective on the possibilities and limits of democracy in the postcolonial world."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0231130627 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. The Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures 2001
  1. The Nation in Heterogeneous Time
  2. Populations and Political Society
  3. The Politics of the Governed
  Pt. II. Global/Local: Before and After September 11
  4. The World After the Great Peace
  5. Battle Hymn
  6. The Contradictions of Secularism
  7. Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois At Last?