In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the
creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia
and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the
nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been
mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such,
he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of
sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their
political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided
their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early
claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women
and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites
first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and
then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the
aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual
sphere.
While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from
Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the
book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on
nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved
with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual
sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere,
the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is
necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
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