Publications

2018

"Indologie, Kasten und Gender: Ein post-brahmanischer Forschungsansatz"
Südasean, No.3/2018.

"Colonialism, caste, and gender: The emergence of critical caste feminism among the Tamil Buddhists in modern India" Critical Asian Studies (under review)

2015

"Tamil Buddhists' Critique of Caste and Patriarchy: Towards a New Framework for Caste and Gender Analysis in South India?" (To be submitted to Modern Asian Studies) (in progress)

"Living Buddhism: Migration, Memory, and the Modern History of Castelessness among Tamil Buddhists." (To be submitted to Comparative Studies in Society and History) (in progress)

Book manuscript entitled: Deep History: Foundations of Anticaste Consciousness and Modern Buddhism in South Asia. (in progress)

Introduction. In, Madras, edited by K. Balamurugan. Chennai: Pathiyam


2014
"The Making of the Postcolonial Theory and Practice Brahminical and Transnational," South Asian History and Culture. A book review essay.

Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India. (Dissertation Published online)

2011
"African American Islam." This Is A Big Letter.Vol.3, Number 3, April.

2010
"Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem." This Is A Big Letter.Vol.2, Number 2, February.

2009
"Harlem 125 Street and African Americans." This Is A Big letter. Vol.1, Number 1, December. (Served as a regular columnist in this Tamil journal writing on African Americans and the Indian diaspora).

2007
Introduction. In, Ziegenbalg - Challenging History by Anbuselvam (in Tamil). Madurai: Pathiyam.
"Representation," In Ambedkar in Retrospect. Edited by Thorat, S. K. and Aryama. New Delhi: Rawat.

1998
"Transforming Dalit Politics." Seminar. November, pp.24-27


Conference Papers and Invited Talks


2015
"Tamil Buddhists' Critique of Caste and Patriarchy: Towards a New Framework for Caste and Gender Analysis in South India?". Paper presented in the conference on Fissures, Mediation, and Theories of Empowerment - Dalit Politics and Anti-Politics in Modern India, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, April 16-17

2014
Respondent to the panel on Dalit Religion: Adaptation, Assertion and Alterity in India. American Academy of Religion, San Diego, USA, Nov 22-25

"Deep Memory: Critical Possibilities in Demystifying the Privileged and Understanding the Marginalized". Keynote speaker in the conference on Culture,
Literature, Arts - Australia-India, Department of English, University of Madras, India, Dec 8-10

"Beyond Dumont: Critical Possibilities for Paradigm Shifts in Caste Studies". Keynote Speaker in the conference on Beyond Dumont and Caste Today, Department of Political Science, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, Dec 16-17

2013
"Questioning the Seemlessness between the Tamil Buddhist Movement and the Dravidian Movement in South India." Invited talk at School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Dec 26-27

2012
"Reconstructing Self: Tamil Buddhism and Marginality in South India." Invited talk at South and South East Asian Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA, March 12

2011
"Problematizing Caste, Religion, and Gender: Tamil Buddhist Women on Child Marriage, Widowhood, and Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century South India." Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, March 31-April 3 (paper read in absentia)

2010
"Reconstruction of the Past and Dilemmas of the Present: Caste, Electoral Politics, and the Marginalized in South India." Tamil Studies Conference, Toronto University, May 13-15

2009
"Elements of Anti-caste Religio-history: Pandit C. Iyothee Thass and Buddhism in Modern Tamil Nadu." American Academy of Religion, Montreal, Quebec, November 7- 10
"Reinventing Anti-caste Identity: Tamil Buddhism in South India." American Historical Association 123rd Annual Meeting, New York City January 2-5