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Publisher description of Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World
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The University of Minnesota Press description and contents for its 1993 edition; it is not the book text.
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Chatterjee argues that anticolonial nationalism challenged European domination while remaining constrained by post-Enlightenment categories it sought to reject.
- supports · publisher description, paragraphs 1–3
Chatterjee argues that ruling classes can convert anticolonial nationalism into a state ideology whose asserted unity does not subsume the whole life of a nation.
- supports · publisher description, paragraphs 4–5
Colonial rule cannot be inferred to be a universal stage between an earlier society and a modern nation-state, and infrastructure or administrative change does not prove a civilizing purpose or effect.
- supports · publisher description, paragraphs 2–5