Current Research: Currently engaged in a research project that explores the near absence of the theoretical discussions on the problem of caste violence in Indian academia.
Research Interests: Political and Cultural Theory; Critical discussions on Post-colonial Theory and Subaltern Historiography; New developments in Marxist and Ambedkarite scholarship; Conceptual works on the problem of Violence; Film Studies; Issues around the formation of Academic Disciplines.
Courses Taught:
M.A. Courses
LCS 145: Debating Violence
LCS 188: Reading Contemporary Indian Culture
LCS 149: The Indian Modern: Explorations in Thought Art Culture
LCS 141: History Society Economy: Reading in the Disciplines
LCS 121: Dalit Studies: Critical Debates on Caste and Culture
M. Phil. & Ph.D. Courses
Contemporary India: Debates on Culture and Politics
Reading Courses for Research Students
Theories of Democracy
Dalit Discourse: History Culture Politics
Social History of Caste and Gender in India
Recent publications
“Preliminary Remarks on Dalit Poetry” Rethinking Marxism vol.30 no.1, May 2018
“Tamil Dalit Literature: Aesthetics, Politics and Life Narratives”, Biography, Vol.40., No.1, Winter 2017, pp.64-76
“Critique of Caste Violence: Explorations in Theory”, Social Scientist, Vol.45., No. 1-2, January-February 2017, pp.49-71
“Dalit: The Making of a Political Subject”, Critical Quarterly” Vol.56, No.3, October 2014 pp. 34-45
Paramakudi Violence: Against Dalits Against Politics (Economic and Political Weekly, Nov.5, 2011)
Department of Cultural Studies 