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The Politics of the Governed the leonard hastings schoff memorial lectures The Politics of the Governed Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World Partha Chatterjee columbia university press new york ColumbiaUniversityPress PublishersSince1893 NewYork,Chichester,WestSussex Copyright(cid:1)2004ColumbiaUniversityPress AllrightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Chatterjee,Partha,1947– Thepoliticsofthegoverned:reflectionsonpopularpoliticsin mostoftheworld/ParthaChatterjee. p.cm.—(Universityseminars/LeonardHastingsSchoff memoriallectures) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-231-13062-7(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Politics,Practical—India.2.Politicalparticipation—India. 3.Democracy—India.4.Equality—India.5.Citizenship—India. I.Title.II.Series. JQ281.C482004 320.954—dc22 2003060821 A ColumbiaUniversityPressbooksareprintedonpermanentand durableacid-freepaper PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica c10987654321 ReferencestoInternetWebSites(URLs)wereaccurateatthe timeofwriting.NeithertheauthornorColumbiaUniversity PressisresponsibleforWebsitesthatmayhaveexpiredor changedsincethearticlesinthisbookwereprepared. “The obstinate multitude yields last; others vacillate endlessly.” —Apocryphal (early modern) To Edward Said (1935–2003), scholar extraordinary university seminars LeonardHastingsSchoffMemorialLectures TheUniversitySeminarsatColumbiaUniversitysponsor anannualseriesoflectures,withthesupportofthe LeonardHastingsSchoffandSuzanneLevickSchoff MemorialFund.AmemberoftheColumbiafacultyis invitedtodeliverbeforeageneralaudiencethreelectures onatopicofhisorherchoosing.ColumbiaUniversity Presspublishesthelectures. DavidCannadine, TheRiseandFallofClassinBritain1993 CharlesLarmore, TheRomanticLegacy1994 SaskiaSassen, SovereigntyTransformed:StatesandtheNew TransnationalActors1995 RobertPollack, TheFaithofBiologyandtheBiologyofFaith:Order,Meaning, andFreeWillinModernMedicalScience2000 IraKatznelson, DesolationandEnlightenment:PoliticalKnowledgeAfterthe Holocaust,Totalitarianism,andTotalWar2003 LisaAnderson, PursuingTruth,ExercisingPower:SocialScienceand PublicPolicyintheTwenty-firstCentury Contents Preface ix part i. the leonard hastings schoff memorial lectures 2001 one: TheNationinHeterogeneousTime 3 two: PopulationsandPoliticalSociety 27 three: ThePoliticsoftheGoverned 53 part ii. global/local: before and after september 11 four: TheWorldAftertheGreatPeace 81 five: BattleHymn 107 six: TheContradictionsofSecularism 113 seven: AreIndianCitiesBecomingBourgeoisAtLast? 131 Afterword 149 Notes 153 Bibliography 161 Index 167 Photographsappearasaninsertfollowingpage78 Preface The Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures were delivered in November2001.IamgratefultotheUniversitySeminarscommittee ofColumbiaUniversity,andRobertBelknapinparticular,forinviting metodeliverthem.Itwasindeedanhonortofollowthedistinguished members of the Columbia faculty who had delivered these lectures beforeme.IamespeciallygratefultoAkeelBilgrami,NicholasDirks, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak for their warm and generous introductions to the lectures and to the members of the audience,including manyof mystudents,fortheir enthusiasticpar- ticipation in the discussions that followed. In preparing the lectures forpublication,Ihavebeenmindfulofmanyofthequestionsraised by my audience. I must confess that it was a little daunting to speak under the giantshadowofwhathadhappenedinNewYork,intheUnitedStates, andinourhaplessworldintheweeksprecedingthelectures.Icould not claim to offer any spectacular enlightenment, and certainly not any magic solution to the world’s intractable problems. What I did hope to bring to my audience then, and what I expect to presentto my readers now, is a certain understanding—however hazy and in- determinateit may be—of what it isthatisdrivingtheenergiesand aspirations of numerous people in most of the world. This is not a worldthatisfamiliartomanyofus,andIdonotclaimanyprivileged insider’sknowledge.Ihavebeen,forthemostpart,myselfanobserver from the outside, except that for the greater part of the year whenI liveandworkawayfromColumbiaandNewYork,thisworldintrudes
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