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நன்றி: சென்னை வளர்ச்சி ஆராய்ச்சி நிறுவனம் – Madras Institute of Development Studies

கல்வி/படிப்பு

1. பி. காம். – சென்னை பல்கலை, 1987
2. எம் ஏ (சரித்திரம்), மதுரை காமராஜர், 1989
3. பிஎச்டி (வரலாறு), ஜவஹர்லால் நேரு, புது தில்லி, 1995

ஆராய்ச்சித் துறை

• Social History
• Cultural History
• Intellectual History
• Literary Historiography – இலக்கிய வராலாற்றியல்
• Social and Cultural Change – சமூக மற்றும் கலாச்சார மாற்றம்

Visiting Faculty, Fellowships and Awards

1. April-July 2006, Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, Center of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
2. February-March 2005, UPE Visiting Fellow, University of Hyderabad.
3. Fall Quarter 1999, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
4. December 1997-January 1998, Visiting Fellow, Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.
5. October 1996, Visiting Fellow, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.
6. September-October 1996, Research Grant,Charles Wallace India Trust, U.K.
7. August 1992-January 1994, Junior Research Fellowship,Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.
8. 1999, Bursary to complete a manuscript on popular literature in Tamil, V.S. Sethuraman Centre for Culture Studies.

வேலை/அனுபவம்:

1. சென்னை வளர்ச்சி ஆராய்ச்சி நிறுவனம் – Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai (from June 2001)
2. Department of Indian History, University of Madras, Chennai (from December 2000 – May 2001)
3. வரலாற்றுத்துறை, மனோன்மணீயம் சுந்தரனார் பல்கலை, திருநெல்வேலி, April 1995- December 2000

புத்தகங்கள் (ஆங்கிலம்) :: Books (English)

1. 2006 (ed.) A.K. Chettiar, In the Tracks of the Mahatma: The Making of a Documentary, Orient Longman, Hyderabad.
2. 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.
3. 2006 (ed.) Chennai, Not Madras: Perspectives on the City, Marg, Mumbai.
4. 2003 (trans.) Sundara Ramaswamy, J.J.: Some Jottings, Katha, New Delhi.

புத்தகங்கள் (தமிழ்) :: Books (Tamil)

1. 2006 (ed.) புதுமைப்பித்தன் மொழிபெயர்ப்புகள் – third volume of the chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Pudumaippithan), Nagercoil.
2. 2005 (trans.) துயர்மிகு வரிகளை இன்றிரவு நான் எழுதலாம் – பாப்லோ நெருதா :: (Tamil Translation of Pablo Neruda), காலச்சுவடு.
3. 2004 (ed.), பாரதியின் ‘விஜயா’ கட்டுரைகள் – காலச்சுவடு.
4. 2004 முச்சந்தி இலக்கியம் (Popular Literature in Colonial Tamilnadu), Nagercoil.
5. 2004 முல்லை – ஓர் அறிமுகம், Mullai Pathippagam, Chennai.
6. 2003 (ed.), ஏகே செட்டியார் – அண்ணல் அடிச்சுவட்டில் (The making of the documentary, Mahathma Gandi), Kalachuvadu Pathippagam, Nagercoil.
7. 2002b நாவலும் வாசிப்பும் – ஒரு வரலாற்றுப் பார்வை(Early Novels and Reading Practices: A Historical View), Nagercoil (second edition 2003).
8. 2002a (ed.) புதுமைப்பித்தன் கட்டுரைகள் (second volume of chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Puthuumaippithan), Nagercoil (second edition 2003).
9. 2000b அந்தக் காலத்தில் காப்பி இல்லை முதலான ஆய்வுக் கட்டுரைகள் (collection of research papers on Tamil cultural history), Nagercoil (second edition 2001).
10. 2000a (ed.) புதுமைப்பித்தன் கதைகள் (first volume of chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Pudhumai piththan), Nagercoil (third revised edition 2002).

பத்தி/கட்டுரை/ஆய்வு வெளியீடு/Translations

1. 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.
2. 2006 ‘Madras Manade: How Chennai remained with Tamilnadu’, in A.R.Venkatachalapathy (ed.), Chennai, Not Madras: Perspectives on the City, Marg, Mumbai.
3. 2005d ‘Andha Kalathil Kapi Illai: Tamilagathe Kapiyude Samskariga Charithiram’, Pachakuthira, August (Malayalam translation of 2002c)
4. 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.
5. 2005b ‘Review symposium: Literary Cultures in History’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 42(3)
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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).
9. 2004a ‘Street Smart in Chennai: The City in Popular Imagination’, in C.S. Lakshmi (ed.), The Unhurried City: Writings on Madras, Penguin.
10. 2003c ‘Caricaturing the Political: A Brief History of the Cartoon in Tamil Journalism’, Art India, 8(4), Quarter 4.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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
14. 2002a ‘Fiction and the Tamil Reading Public’, in Meenakshi Mukherjee (ed.), Early Novels in India, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

தற்போதைய ஆய்வு & ஆர்வம்/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).