JOURNAL ARTICLES
2024:
"Jigsaw of Dis-coloration: Anti-Caste Poetics and The Absent Color," CASTE A Global Journal on Social Exclusion (Brandeis University), Vol 5, No 3, Sep. Pp 358-370.
https://doi.org/10.26812/caste.v5i3.2319
2023:
"Sarithiram as Interpretative Pedagogy: Iyothee Thass's Casteless Community and History," Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State Univ. Press), Vol 11, No 1, Jan. Pp 94-119.
https://doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.11.1.0094
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/887357
"Collective Sounds: Pa. Ranjith's Cinema, Gaana and Fusion Music," South Asian Popular Culture (Taylor and Francis), Vol 21, No 1 (Sep 2022 Online). Pp 105-22.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2022.2115738
2021:
“Caste-less Tamils and Early Print Public Sphere: Remembering Iyothee Thass (1845-914),” South Asia Research (Sage), Vol 41, No 3, November. Pp 349-68.
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02627280211034858
2020:
“Rohith-Movement, Conversion and Re-naming: Notes from Hyderabad.” Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Duke Univ. Press), Vol 3, No 3, Dec. Pp 519-27.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8662408
2019:
“Towards a Casteless Community: Dalit Experience and Thought as ‘Movement’.” Economic and Political Weekly (Special Article), Vol 54, No 21, May 25. Pp 47-54.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/21/special-articles/towards-caste-less-c...
2017:
“One Step Inside Tamilian: On the Anti-Caste Writing of Language.” Social Scientist, Vol 45, Issue 1-2, January-February. Pp 19-32.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/26380327
2015:
“Spectacle Spaces: Production of Caste in recent Tamil films.” South Asian Popular Culture (Taylor & Francis), Vol 13, Issue 2, October. Pp 155-173.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2015.1088499
BOOK CHAPTERS
2025:
“The Anti-Caste Hermeneutic: Iyothee Thassar and Tamil Buddhist Past." Dalit Journeys for Dignity: Religion, Freedom and Caste. Eds. Ramnarayan Rawat, Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan. State University of New York Press. Pp 274-301.
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.27024378.13
“Cast Out Worlds in Print: Iyothee Thass (1845-1914) and Tamil Public Sphere.” Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia. Eds. P. Thirumal and K.A. Nuaiman. Orient Blackswan. Pp 175-209.
2024:
“Thassar’s Buddha and Civilizational Memory.” Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity, and Equality in Indian History. Ed. Prathama Banerjee. Bloomsbury UK. Pp 113-125.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/textual-lives-of-caste-across-the-ages-978...
2023:
“Caste and Religion: A Critical Survey.” Sacrafanations—Dalit Religion(s): Epistemology, Theology, and Politics. Ed. Y.T. Vinayaraj. ISPCK & CISRS. Pp 19-50.
https://www.ibpbooks.com/sacrafanations-dalit-religions-epistemology-the...
2022:
"Magizhchi: 'The Casteless Collective' and the Sensorial Exscription," Coauthored with Manju Edachira in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India. Eds. Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak. Routledge, pp 63-76.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003343578-7
2021:
“Conscripts of Cinema: Dangerous and Deviant Third Wave.” Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Caste, Gender and Technology. Eds. Selvaraj Velayutham and Vijay Devadas. Routledge, pp 36-51.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429244025-3
2019:
“Anti-caste Communitas and Out-caste Experience: Space, Body, Displacement and Writing.” The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy. Ed. Kaustav Chakraborty. Routledge, pp. 101-125.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429295980-8
“From Discourse to Critique? Iyothee Thass and the Dalit Intellectual Legacy.” Multilingualism and the Literary Culture of India. Ed. M.T. Ansari. Sahitya Akademi, pp 200-234.
https://ompublications.in/product/books/OM44246
“Incommensurable Sacral-Secular Sectarianism? Rohith-Movement and the Emergence of the Inappropriable,” co-authored with P. Thirumal in Secular Sectarianism: Limits of Subaltern Politics. Ed. Ajay Gudavarthy. Sage, pp 23-35.
https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/secular-sectarianism/book271597#contents
