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245			_aThe Cambridge companion to Periyar / _cEdited by A. R. Venkatachalapathy & Karthick Ram Manoharan
260			_aNew Delhi / _bCambridge University Press / _c2025.
300			_ax, 265 pages _c23 cm.
365			_bRs. 950.00
440			_aCambridge companions to history
505			_aAcknowledgments - Introducing an Iconoclast A. R. Venkatachalapathy and Karthick Ram Manoharan - I. Events that made Periyar: 1. Periyar and the Vaikom Satyagraha Pazha Athiyaman - 2. Periyar, Ambedkar, and the Poona Pact A. Thiruneelakandan - II. The Politics of Periyar: 3. EVR's Non-Brahmin Cosmopolitanism, Periyar's Dravidian Nationalism, and the Appearance of Humankind Matthew H. Baxter - 4. Periyar and the Forging of a Horizontal Dravidian-Tamil Solidarity K. R. Vignesh Karthik - 5. The Double-Barreled Gun: Periyar and Anna after the Split in the Dravidar Kazhagam A. R. Venkatachalapathy - III. Religion, Caste and Identity: 6. The Rationale for Reason: Periyar on Religion Sundar Kaali - 7. Periyar's Anti-Aryanism: A Genealogy, A Synopsis, and A Critique Karthick Ram Manoharan - 8. Periyar in Singapore: Transnationalism and Decolonisation Darinee Alagirisamy - IV. Women and Culture: 9. Periyar, the Women's Question, and Maniyammai Karthick Ram Manoharan and Vilasini Ramani - 10. Periyar's Engagement with Literature Antony Arul Valan - 11. Periyar, Art, and Cinema Swarnavel Eswaran - V. Labor and Dignity: 12. The Social subsumes the Economic: Periyar's Reading of Economic Power in Caste Society M. Vijayabaskar - 13. Liberation Notes, Dignity, and Periyar: A Radical Cultural Psychology Perspective Ramaswami Mahalingam For Further Reading - Index.
520			_aThe Cambridge Companion to Periyar is a timely academic intervention which brings together scholars working on different aspects of modern Tamil politics, taking diverse perspectives, to comment on Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, the significant thinker whose thoughts inform political practices in contemporary Tamil Nadu. As the chapters seek to demonstrate, Periyar's thoughts can have a pan-Indian and a global significance, informing conversations on caste, gender, religion, regionalism, nationalism, and social justice. Likewise, in the wake of wider conversations on bringing diversity to the academic disciplines, this volume on Periyar will draw attention to a non-canonical thinker whose important intellectual and political contributions transcend the limits of his context. The volume brings together established academics in the field as well as early career researchers to provide the first of its kind companion to Periyar. Tapping new sources, challenging myths, and crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume presents a Periyar for the times. Brings conversations from the Tamil world to a global audience Engagement with new primary material Chapters on Periyar from multi-disciplinary perspectives
650			_aArea Studies
650			_aSouth Asian Government
650			_aPolitics and Policy
650			_aPolitical Sociology
650			_aPolitics and International Relations
650			_aSociology
700			_aA. R. Venkatachalapathy [Editor]
700			_aKarthick Ram Manoharan [Editor]
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