M. S. S. Pandian

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M. S. S. Pandian
BornMathias Samuel Soundra Pandian
(1958-12-16)16 December 1958
Madras University, Scott Christian College
Notable worksThe Image Trap(1992) Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present(2007/2008)

Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian

Dravidian Movement, South Indian politics, cinema, caste, identity and several other socially relevant issues. Pandian joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi as a professor in 2009.[1] At the time of his death, he was serving in the School of Social Sciences’ Centre for Historical Studies where he offered courses on ‘Region, Language and the Politics of Nation Making’ and ‘Caste, Culture and Communication: An Alternative Intellectual History of Modern India’.[2]

He died on 10 November 2014, in Delhi following a cardiac arrest.[3]

Education and academic career

Pandian was a native of Marthandam, a town in Kanyakumari district.

Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Chennai.[5] He was the Honorary Visiting Fellow, Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi during the period of 2002–2009. Pandian joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University
, Delhi in 2009 and continued in the post till his untimely death in 2014.

Pandian has been the Rama Wattamul Distinguished Indian Scholar at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu in 2008. the other posts he held include: visiting fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies at the Cambridge University in 2004; visiting professor in human sciences at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 2002.[6]

Published works

# Title Year of Publishing
1 Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present 2007/2008
2 The Image Trap: M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics, 1992
3 Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Nanchilnadu, 1880-1939 1990

M.S.S. Pandian has also co-edited Muslims, Dalits and Fabrications of History: Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 12 (2005)

References

  1. ^ a b "Noted Scholar MSS Pandian Passes Away- The New Indian Express". Archived from the original on 11 November 2014.
  2. ^ http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/msspandian/cv.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Social scientist Pandian dead - The Hindu". The Hindu. 10 November 2014.
  4. ^ "M.S.S. Pandian laid to rest in Marthandam - TAMIL NADU - The Hindu". The Hindu. 13 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Noted Scholar MSS Pandian Dies at 57".
  6. ISBN 978-93-515-0066-7
    (HB). p. 162

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