Education
B. Com.,
University of
Madras, 1987
MA (History),
Madurai –Kamaraj
University, 1989
PhD (History),
Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New
Delhi, 1995
Areas of
Research
Social History,
Cultural
History,
Intellectual
History,
Literary
Historiography,
Social and
Cultural Change.
|
Award |
|
2010 |
V.K.R.V.
Rao
Prize
in
Social
Sciences
(History
2007).
Awarded
by
the
Indian
Council
for
Social
Sciences
(ICSSR)
and
the
Institute
of
Social
&
Economic
Change |
|
Named
Lectures/Keynote
Addresses |
|
May
2013 |
Keynote
Speaker,
Ninth
Berkeley
Tamil
Conference,
‘Reading
Tamil
Publics:
Questions
of
Audience’,
University
of
California,
Berkeley. |
|
May
2012 |
Plenary
Speaker,
Annual
Tamil
Studies
Conference,
University
of
Toronto |
|
July
2011 |
B.S.
Kesavan
Centenary
Lecture,
National
Library,
Kolkata |
|
November
2010 |
Ondaatje
Annual
Lecture,
University
of
Toronto |
|
May
2007 |
Keynote
Speaker,
First
Norman
Cutler
Conference
on
South
Asian
Literatures,
University
of
Chicago |
|
Visiting
Faculty/Fellowships |
|
2011–2012 |
ICCR
Chair
Professor
of
Indian
Studies,
South
Asian
Studies
Programme,
National
University
of
Singapore |
|
Fall
2010 |
Associate
Fellow,
South
Asia
Initiative,
Harvard
University |
|
March
2007 |
Visiting
Fellow,
Department
of
History,
University
of
Calcutta |
|
March
2007 |
Visiting
Fellow,
Department
of
English,
University
of
Delhi |
|
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. |
Membership in
Think Tank
Member, Board of
Advisors, The
Hindu Centre for
Politics and
Public Policy.
Membership in
Decision-Making
Bodies
Member,
Executive
Council, Central
University of
Tamilnadu,
2013–16
Member,
Governing
Council, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies, 2007–09
Member,
Executive
Council, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies, 2011–13
Member, Finance
Committee,
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies, 2011–13
Member,
Governing
Council, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies, 2011–13
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
Publications
2012 The
Province of the
Book: Scholars,
Scribes, and
Scribblers in
Colonial
Tamilnadu,
Permanent Black,
Ranikhet
2012 (trans.)
Singai Ma.
Elangkannan,
Flowers at Dawn,
Epigram Books,
Singapore.
2011 (ed.)
Red Lilies and
Frightened
Birds: A
Translation of
the Tamil
Classic ‘Muttollayiram’,
Penguin Black
Classics Series,
Penguin, New
Delhi
(forthcoming in
Sep. 2011).
2010 (ed.)
Love Stands
Alone:
Selections from
Tamil Sangam
Poetry,
Penguin Viking,
New Delhi.
2009 Guest
Editor (with
Esther Fihl),
Review of
Development and
Change, XIV
(1–2),
January–December,
special double
no.: ‘Cultural
Encounters in
Tranquebar: Past
and Present’.
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.)
A.K. Chettiar,
In the Tracks
of the Mahatma:
The Making of a
Documentary,
Orient Longman,
Hyderabad.
2006 (ed.)
Chennai, Not
Madras:
Perspectives on
the City,
Marg, Mumbai.
2003 (trans.)
Sundara
Ramaswamy,
J.J.: Some
Jottings,
Katha, New
Delhi.
1999 (ed.)
Guest Editor,
South Indian
Folklorist,
Special number
on ‘Folklore in
Print’.
Books (Tamil)
2010 (ed.)
Tilaka
Maharishi by
V.O.C.
(unpublished
biography of
Tilak by V.O.
Chidambaram
Pillai),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2008
(trans.) Romila
Thapar, Past
& Prejudice,
National Book
Trust of India,
New Delhi.
2008
Bharati
Karuvoolam:
‘Hindu’
Nalithalil
Bharathiyin
Eluthukkal
(uncollected
writings of
Subramania
Bharati in the
Hindu),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2006
(ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Mozhipeyarppukal
(third volume of
the
chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2005
(trans.)
Thuyarmiku
Varikalai
Indriravu Nan
Ezhutalam
(Tamil
Translation of
Pablo Neruda’s
poems),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2004
(ed.),
Bharatiyin
‘Vijaya’
Katturaigal
(The uncollected
writings of
Subramania
Bharati from
Vijaya,
1909-1910),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
2004 Mucchanthi
Ilakkiyam
(Popular
Literature in
Colonial
Tamilnadu),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
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),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil
(second edition
2003).
2002a (ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Katturaigal
(second volume
of chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil
(second edition
2003).
2000b Andha
Kalathil Kappi
Illai Muthalana
Aaivu
Katturaigal
(collection of
research papers
on Tamil
cultural
history),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil
(second edition
2001).
2000a (ed.)
Pudumaippithan
Kathaigal
(first volume of
chronological
and variorum
edition of the
complete works
of
Pudumaippithan),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil (sixth
edition 2010).
1999
(ed.) Va. Oo.
Chiyin Sivagnana
Bodha Urai
(Critical
edition of
V.O.Chidambaram
Pillai’s
commentary on
Sivagnana Bodham),
Tuticorin.
1998
(ed.) Annai
Itta
Thee
(Uncollected
works of
Pudumaippithan),
Kalachuvadu
Pathippagam,
Nagercoil.
1994c
(ed.)
Bharatiyin ‘India’
Karuthuppadangal,
1906-10
(Bharati's
‘India’
Cartoons,
1906-10),
Madras.
1994b (ed.)
V.O.C.yum
Bharatiyum
(V.O.C. and
Bharati), Makkal
Veliyeedu,
Madras.
1994a
Dravidar
Iyakkamum
Vellalarum,
1927-44 (The
Dravidian
Movement and the
Vellalars,
1927-44), South
Vision Books,
Madras.
1990
(With
A.Sivasubramanian).
Binny
Alai
Velainirutham
1921 (The Binny
Mills' Strike
1921), Ponni,
Madras.
1988
(ed.)
Maraimalai
Adigalar
Natkurippugal
(Diaries of
Maraimalai
Adigal,
1898-1950),
Madras.
1987 V.O.C.yum
Tirunelveli
Eluchiyum
(V.O.C. and the
Tirunelveli
Riots, 1908),
Makkal Veliyeedu,
Madras.
1984
(ed.) V.O.C.
Kadithangal
(Letters of
V.O.C.,
1901-36), Sekar
Pathippagam,
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(English)
2011 ‘More
Kshatriya Than
Thou: Caste and
Ritual Ranking
in Colonial
Tamilnadu’, in
Michael
Bergunder, Heiko
Frese and Ulrike
Schröder (eds),
Ritual,
Caste, and
Religion in
Colonial South
India,
Delhi: Primus
Books.
2011 ‘Bharati
on Tagore’,
Seminar,
July.
2010 ‘In
Print, On the
Net: Tamil
Literary Canon
in the Colonial
and Post
Colonial
Worlds’, in
Sumit Gupta,
Tapan Basu,
Subarno
Chattarji (eds),
Globalization
in India:
Contents and
Discontents,
Pearson, New
Delhi.
2010 ‘More
Kshatriya Than
Thou: Caste and
Ritual Ranking
in Colonial
Tamilnadu’, in
Michael
Bergunder, Heiko
Frese and Ulrike
Schröder (eds),
Ritual,
Caste, and
Religion in
Colonial South
India, (Neue
Hallesche
Berichte 9)
Halle: Verlag
der Franckeschen
Stiftungen.
2010b ‘In Search
of Ashe’,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
9–15 January.
2010a ‘In Those
Days There Was
No coffee’:
Consumption,
Popular Culture,
and Middle-Class
Formation in
Madras’ in
Sanjay Joshi
(ed.), The
Middle Class in
Colonial India,
Oxford Univ.
Press, New
Delhi.
2009d ‘Excising
the Self:
Writing
Autobiography in
Colonial
Tamilnadu’,
The Journal of
South Indian
History, 3
(1), July 2009.
2009c ‘Written
on Leaves in the
Malabarian
Manner: Print
Culture in
Eighteenth-Century
Tranquebar’, in
Review of
Development and
Change, XIV
(1–2),
January–December.
2009b ‘Grammar,
the Frame of
language: Tamil
Pandits at the
College of Fort
St George’, in
Thomas R.
Trautmann (ed.),
The Madras
School of
Orientalism:
Producing
Knowledge in
Colonial South
India,
Oxford Univ.
Press, New
Delhi.
2009a ‘Making a
Modern Self in
Colonial
Tamilnadu’, in
Vijaya Ramaswamy
& Yogesh Sharma
(eds),
Biography as
History: Indian
Perspectives,
Orient BlackSwan,
New Delhi.
2008a ‘Kalaikkalanjiyam:
The Making of
the Tamil
Encyclopaedia,
1947-1968’ in
Swapan
Chakravorty &
Abhijit Gupta
(ed.),
Movable Type:
Book History in
India,
Permanent Black,
Ranikhet.
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.
2006b
‘Subaltern
Studies in the
Tamil Context:
Some
Reflections’ in
N. Rajendran,
(ed.),
Sources:
Construction &
Reconstruction
of South Indian
History,
ICHR, Bangalore.
2006a ‘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
(ed.), 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.
2003a ‘When
Gandhi Visited
Madras’,
Hindu, 26
January
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 (reprint
of 1995b).
Indian reprint:
Tulika, Delhi,
2003.
2002a ‘Fiction
and the Tamil
Reading Public’,
in Meenakshi
Mukherjee (ed.),
Early Novels
in India,
Sahitya Akademi,
New Delhi.
2001 ‘What is
it Worth?:
Reflections on
the Making of
the Tamil
Literary Canon’,
in G.
Karunanithi & R.
Balachandran
(eds.),
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1999
‘Songsters of
the Crossroads:
Popular
Literature in
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Tamilnadu’,
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Folklorist,
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‘Almanacs and
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Timetables: A
Brief History of
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‘Lampooning the
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the Dravidian
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1996a
‘Subramania
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1995b ‘Plague:
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1995b ‘Coining
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1994 ‘Reading
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1988
‘Colonial
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Political Weekly,
19 Jan.
2012 ‘A
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the Tamil Poet’,
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May.
2010 ‘When
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2010 ‘Tilak’s
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‘Speaking of
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‘Classical
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‘Tongue-Tied’,
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‘Jeyakanthan:
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‘Nationalising
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‘Maruthuva
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‘Bharatiyin
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‘Bharatam Thanta
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‘Uthiratha
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‘Anandanum
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Theeranadhi,
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‘Anandanum
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Dinamani
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Ira Ilavarau
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‘Panchangamum
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Samakala
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Current Research
Work
-
Indo-Danish
Interaction
in the 18th
century with
special
reference to
Print (in
collaboration
with the
University
of
Copenhagen,
Denmark)
-
Studies in
the social
history of
the
Dravidian
movement.
-
The making
of
middle-class
culture in
colonial
Tamilnadu.
-
A
multi-volume
biography of
and
documentation
on V.O.
Chidambaram
Pillai
(1872-1936).
-
Editing the
collected
works of
Pudumaippithan
(thus far
four volumes
published;
three more
are under
preparation).
Contact Details
A R
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Professor
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies
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Road, Gandhi
Nagar, Adyar
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INDIA
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