#Periyar on #Ambedkar : "He is a great leader by himself. There will not be another leader like him in future. He was a natural leader, anticipating an egalitarian time. After Ambedkar, there can be no other leader like him." theperiyarproject.com/2021/04/14/amb…

Here is a review by gayatri balusha, Principal Project Scientist at IIT-Delhi, of Karthick Ram Manoharan's book "Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism", published on Doing Sociology. Reviewer says the book reaches out to a global audience beyond the academia. doingsociology.org/2023/08/07/per…

My article on Mari Selvaraj's #Maamannan is out Himal Southasian, which extends into a discussion on the 'cinema of caste' in Tamil Nadu. There is stuff on Thevar Magan, Mannathi Mannan, the two Karnans, Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi and more! The guiding spirit + himalmag.com/mari-selvaraj-…

The first translations (according to some sources) of Bhagat Singh's "Why I am an Atheist" and of BR Ambedkar's "Annihilation of Caste" were in Tamil. Both were commissioned by #Periyar and published in his party paper Kudi Arasu. #Periyar145 is for all India.

I will be at Stanford University Stanford Humanities Center as Bliss Carnochan International Visitor. Much grateful to have been nominated by Center for South Asia at Stanford. Will be working on some new stuff related to the Dravidian Movement. Watch this space for updates! shc.stanford.edu/stanford-human…

Something for #Periyar145 - my piece Frontline on his idea of Samadharma, its relation to socialism, its commitment to equality and secularism, etc. I also briefly discuss Section 295A, and how it was used against Periyar. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/essay…

ESSAY | #Periyar uses #samadharma to refer to a socialistic imagination premised on the #equality of all, as opposed to Manu dharma, varnashrama dharma, stri dharma, and so on, which promote social hierarchies & embed inequalities. Karthick Ram Manoharan writes. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/essay…

I will be speaking on Periyar's "Anti-Aryanism" Center for South Asia at Stanford on 16 October. southasia.stanford.edu/events/account…

And on the 19th of October, will be giving a talk at University of Exeter's South Asia Centre Exeter South Asia - @exetersouthasia.bsky.social on Fanon and Periyar.

Happening at Stanford Uni now! Screening of @vilasiniramani's "The Icon and the Iconoclast", followed by a discussion on caste, religion, the Dravidian Movement, and more.

I had an absolutely great time as Bliss Carnochan International Visitor at this brilliant place Stanford Humanities Center Met amazing people and commenced new work. Looking forward to more conversations!

special issue of J-Caste "Freedom From Caste: New Beginnings in Transdisciplinary Scholarship", that Meena Dhanda and I coedited, as part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #CasteFree project at University of Wolverhampton journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/cast…

Good to see the ongoing influence on scholarship of the EU project The Periyar Project in which we developed the idea of #freedom from #caste with Karthick Ram Manoharan #Periyarproject #anticasteism #Ambedkar University of Wolverhampton Impact Team University of Wolverhampton

"Dravidian politics, with its stress on social justice, secularism, and federalism, offers what appears so far to be the best foil against the exclusionary politics of Hindutva." argues Karthick Ram Manoharan in latest article on Frontline Frontline. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/how-t…

In my (long) commentary on the latest issue of EPW, I revisit Robert Hardgrave's classic work 'The Nadars of Tamilnad' and review it in context of discussions on Subaltern Studies and caste. My tribute to the scholarship of Hardgrave and Ranajit Guha. epw.in/journal/2024/1…

Commentary | Karthick Ram Manoharan Robert L Hardgrave’s book titled The Nadars of Tamilnad (1969), a study of a caste in South India and the politics of self-assertion in the colonial and postcolonial period, is revisited. epw.in/journal/2024/1…

AS Krishnamachari "Iyengar", or ASK as he was known, was dismissive of those who accused Periyar of hatred towards Brahmins and called it out as slander. He wrote one of the best books on Periyar in Tamil. More on my latest article Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/politics/periy…

Since subalternity is back in conversation, re-plugging my Economic & Political Weekly article "Oppressed, Backward, or Subaltern?" which reflects on subaltern studies and caste. epw.in/journal/2024/1…

New article "Taking Periyarism Seriously: The Dravidian Identity as a Universality" out on Global Intellectual History identifies Karthick Ram Manoharan as "most active contemporary scholar approaching #Periyar from the perspective of intellectual history". tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

News: Karthick Ram Manoharan's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 H2020 project output, the book "Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism" has been translated to Malayalam, contributing to project goal of taking Periyar to global audiences. Meena Dhanda University of Wolverhampton Impact Team