Our Salute to Comrade MSS.Pandiyan. We are shocked to hear his - TopicsExpress



          

Our Salute to Comrade MSS.Pandiyan. We are shocked to hear his untimely demise. One of the most valuable scholar on Tamils and Radical movement will be missed by us. .....His hugely influential book “Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present” is considered a must read for anyone interested in Dravidian politics of Tamil Nadu. He has published several academic articles on Tamil politics, nationalism, history and historiography, caste, culture, and film criticism. Sources say that selections of his articles are to be published as a book soon. He is one of the rare few Tamil Nadu scholars who have effectively presented the accomplishments of Periyar’s politics in the academia. While the mainstream Indian scholarship in general tends to denigrate or downplay the achievements of Periyar, Pandian had effectively challenged this intellectual hegemony and provided a robust intellectual defence for Periyar’s thoughts and politics. A long-standing supporter of the Tamil Eelam struggle, he vehemently condemned the deployment of the IPKF in 1987. Sources close to him say that he also participated in several public demonstrations against the same. Likewise, during his stay in London in his PostDoc tenure, he developed a friendly rapport with Col. Kittu. ... - Tamilnet tamilnet/art.html?catid=13&artid=37472
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:50:15 +0000

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