A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia with novel conceptual tools for analyzing the present. This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to honor his life and work.Dealing with different ways of theorizing the present, the essays in Theorizing the Present focus on some critical themes underlining twentieth century India--work of ...
This volume brings together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history within present-day conditions. The central focus is on aspects of the popular, on the ways in which the popular relates to the scientific, the professional, the aesthetic, the religious, the legal, and the political. The essays in this book represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They share some of the impulses that had earlier produced movements ...