Chatterjee, Partha, 1947-

Lineages of political society : studies in postcolonial democracy / Partha Chatterjee. - Ranikhet, India : Permanent Black, 2011. - xiv, 278p.: ill. ; 23 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 nat ional images -- Critique of popular culture -- Community and capital -- Democracy and economic transformation -- Empire and nation today.

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

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