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Educational
Qualification:
B Com.,
University of
Madras, Chennai,
1987
M A (History), Madurai Kamaraj
University, 1989
Ph D (History),
Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New
Delhi, 1995
Areas of
Research:
Social History,
Cultural
History,
Intellectual
History,
Literary
Historiography,
Social and
Cultural Change.
Visiting
Faculty,
Fellowships and
Awards
April-July 2006,
Charles Wallace
Visiting Fellow,
Centre of South
Asian Studies,
University of
Cambridge
February-March
2005,
UPE Visiting
Fellow,
University of
Hyderabad.
Fall Quarter
1999,
Visiting
Assistant
Professor,
Department of
South Asian
Languages and
Civilizations,
University of
Chicago.
December
1997-January
1998,
Visiting Fellow,
Indo-French
Cultural
Exchange
Programme,
Maison des
Sciences de
l'Homme, Paris.
October 1996,
Visiting Fellow,
Maison des
Sciences de
l'Homme, Paris.
September-October
1996,
Research Grant,Charles Wallace
India Trust,
U.K.
August
1992-January
1994,
Junior Research
Fellowship,Indian Council
of Historical
Research, New
Delhi.
1999,
Bursary to
complete a
manuscript on
popular
literature in
Tamil, V.S.
Sethuraman
Centre for
Culture Studies.
Work Experience
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies, Chennai
(from June 2001)
Department of
Indian History,
University of
Madras, Chennai
(from December
2000 - May 2001)
Department of
History,
Manonmaniam
Sundaranar
University,
Tirunelveli,
April 1995-
December 2000
Selected
Publications
Books (English)
2006 (ed.) A.K.
Chettiar, In the
Tracks of the
Mahatma: The
Making of a
Documentary,
Orient Longman,
Hyderabad.
2006 In Those
Days There Was
No Coffee:
Writings in
Cultural History
(New
Perspectives on
Indian Pasts,
Series Editor:
Saurabh Dube),
Yoda Press, New
Delhi.
2006 (ed.)
Chennai, Not
Madras:
Perspectives on
the City, Marg,
Mumbai.
2003 (trans.)
Sundara
Ramaswamy, J.J.:
Some Jottings,
Katha, New
Delhi.
Books (Tamil)
2006 (ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Mozhipeyarppukal
(third volume of
the
chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Nagercoil.
2005 (trans.)
Thuyarmiku
Varikalai
Indriravu Nan
Ezhutalam (Tamil
Translation of
Pablo Neruda),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2004 (ed.),
Bharatiyin 'Vijaya'
Katturaigal,
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2004 Mucchanthi
Ilakkiyam
(Popular
Literature in
Colonial
Tamilnadu),
Nagercoil.
2004 Mullai: Oar
Arimugam, Mullai
Pathippagam,
Chennai.
2003 (ed.),
A.K.Chettiar,
Annal
Adichuvattil
(The making of
the documentary,
Mahatma Gandhi),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2002b Novelum
Vasippum: Oru
Varalattru
Parvai (Early
Novels and
Reading
Practices: A
Historical
View), Nagercoil
(second edition
2003).
2002a (ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Katturaigal
(second volume
of chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Nagercoil
(second edition
2003).
2000b Andha
Kalathil Kappi
Illai Muthalana
Aaivu
Katturaigal
(collection of
research papers
on Tamil
cultural
history),
Nagercoil
(second edition
2001).
2000a (ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Kathaigal (first
volume of
chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Nagercoil (third
revised edition
2002).
Articles
2007
'Exaggerated
Obituaries: The
Tamil Book in
the Age of
Electronic
Reproduction',
in Nalini Rajan
(ed.), Digital
Culture
Unplugged:
Probing the
Native Cyborg's
Multiple
Locations,
Routledge,
London, New York
& New Delhi,
2007.
2006 'Madras
Manade: How
Chennai remained
with Tamilnadu',
in
A.R.Venkatachalapathy
(ed.), Chennai,
Not Madras:
Perspectives on
the City, Marg,
Mumbai.
2005d 'Andha
Kalathil Kapi
Illai:
Tamilagathe
Kapiyude
Samskariga
Charithiram',
Pachakuthira,
August
(Malayalam
translation of
2002c)
2005c 'Enna
Prayocanam:
Constructing the
Canon in
Colonial
Tamilnadu'.
Indian Economic
and Social
History Review,
42(4),
October-December,
special number
on Language,
Genre and
Historical
Imagination in
South India.
2005b 'Review
symposium:
Literary
Cultures in
History', Indian
Economic and
Social History
Review, 42(3)
2005a 'Drinking
Coffee:
Contending with
Modernity in
Late Colonial
Tamilnadu' in
Satish Poduval
(ed.),
Re-figuring
Culture:
History, Theory
and the
Aesthetic in
Contemporary
India, Sahitya
Akademi, New
Delhi.
2004c 'Triumph
of Tobacco: The
Tamil
Experience', in
Jean-Luc
Chevillard, Eva
Wilden (eds.),
South-Indian
Horizons:
Felicitation
Volume for
Francois Gros,
Institut
Francais de
Pondichery &
Ecole Francaise
d'Extreme-Orient,
Pondicherry.
2004b 'In Those
Days There was
no Coffee:
Coffee-Drinking
and Middle-Class
Culture in Late
Colonial
Tamilnadu,' in
Sanjay
Subrahmanyam,
Land, Politics
and Trade in
South Asia,
Oxford
University Press
(reprint of
2002c).
2004a 'Street
Smart in
Chennai: The
City in Popular
Imagination', in
C.S. Lakshmi
(ed.), The
Unhurried City:
Writings on
Madras, Penguin.
2003c
'Caricaturing
the Political: A
Brief History of
the Cartoon in
Tamil
Journalism', Art
India, 8(4),
Quarter 4.
2003b 'In Print,
On the Net:
Tamil Literary
Canon(s) in the
Colonial and
Post Colonial
Worlds', in
Sumit Gupta,
Tapan Basu
(eds.),
Globalisation,
Conflict and
Identity, Nehru
Memorial Museum
and Library, New
Delhi.
2002c 'In Those
Days There was
no Coffee:
Coffee-Drinking
and Middle-Class
Culture in Late
Colonial
Tamilnadu,'
Indian Economic
and Social
History Review,
39(2-3), Dharma
Kumar Memorial
Volume.
2002b 'Coining
Words: Politics
and Language in
Late Colonial
Tamilnadu' in
Vasant Kaiwar &
Sucheta Mazumdar
(eds.),
Antinomies of
Modernity:
Essays on Race,
Orient, Nation,
Duke University
Press
2002a 'Fiction
and the Tamil
Reading Public',
in Meenakshi
Mukherjee (ed.),
Early Novels in
India, Sahitya
Akademi, New
Delhi.
Current Research
Work
Indo-Danish
Interaction in
the 18th century
with special
reference to
Print (in
collaboration
with the
National Museum
of Denmark)
Studies in the
social history
of the Dravidian
movement.
The making of
middle-class
culture in
colonial
Tamilnadu.
Tamilnadu:
Academic
Perspectives
from Without
A multi-volume
biography of and
documentation on
V.O.Chidambaram
Pillai
(1872-1936).
Editing the
collected works
of
Pudumaippithan
(thus far three
volumes
published; three
more are under
preparation).
Contact Details
A R
Venkatachalapathy,
Professor,
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies,
79, Second Main
Road, Gandhi
Nagar, Adyar,
Chennai - 600
020, Tamil Nadu,
INDIA.
Tel: 0091 - 44 -
24412589 /
24419771, Fax:
0091 - 44 -
24910872,
E-mail:
chalapathy@mids.ac.in
Web: http://www.mids.ac.in/chalapathy.htm
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