Partha Chatterjee is Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, and Professor Anthropology at Columbia University.

Professor Chatterjee is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective and is a member of the Global Governance editorial board. He is also Chair of the Council of South Asia Libraries in Chicago.

His books include "The Politics of the Governed" (2004), "A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal" (2003), "A Possible India" (1997), "The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories" (1993), and "Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World" (1986). He is the author of numerous papers and has lectured and taught widely in Europe, Africa, Brazil, and the United States.

In addition to these works, Prof. Chatterjee has also composed music for over a dozen stage productions in Calcutta and was twice awarded prizes for best music composition of the year by the West Bengal Theatre Academy, in 1984 and 1996.

There will be a follow-up discussion on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. at the Stanford Humanities Center.