Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-

Lineages of political society : studies in postcolonial democracy / Partha Chatterjee. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2011. - p. cm. - Cultures of history .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lineages of political society -- Five hundred years of fear and love -- The rule of subjects -- Two poets and death -- Tagore's non-nation -- The people in utopian and real time -- The sacred circulation of national images -- Critique of popular culture -- Community and capital -- Democracy and economic transformation -- Empire and nation today.

9780231158121 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231158138 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231527910 (ebook)

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Democracy--History.--India
Democracy--Philosophy.
Postcolonialism--India.

JQ281 / .C47 2011

325.3 CHA