Chatterjee, Partha. The politics of the governed: reflections on popular politics in most of the world. Columbia University Press, 2004.
Partha Chatterjee, "The Politics of the Governed", contributed by Parikshith Shashikumar, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 May 2019, accessed 18 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/politics-governed
Critical Commentary
Chatterjee's book especially the seventh chapter dealing with Kolkata's urban modification due the "global city" developmental agenda, depicts the nation state as both the site and device of population governance .