Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
📍 4F7 / AB1
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Research Area
Intellectual History, Literary Historiography
Research Interests
Intellectual History, History of Tamil Literature, Literary Historiography, Book History, Reception Studies, Social History
2024 : Affiliate, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai
2023 : Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo
2013 - 2020 : Assistant Professor in History, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali
2013 : Assistant Professor in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC), Calcutta
2012 : Assistant Professor in History, School of Humanities and Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), Jaipur
2010 - 2012 : Adjunct Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
2005 - 2010 : PhD, IIT Madras
2003 - 2004 : M.Phil, University of Hyderabad
2001 - 2003 : M.A, University of Hyderabad
1998 - 2001 : B.A, Madras Christian College
Best Teacher Award, IISER Mohali.
200Jan Gonda Fellow, Jan Gonda Foundation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands.
Rajesh Venkatasubramanian. Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940–1970. In Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century. Routledge India, 2023, pages 201–225.
V Rajesh. The Making of Classical Tamil Literature: Multiple Sources in its Construction. In Seeking History through Her Source: South of the Vindhyas. Orient Blackswan, 2022, pages 25–43.
V Rajesh. Reading M.K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj in Classroom: Challenges Confronting Pedagogy and Intellectual History. Social Change and Development 25(January):82–89, 2018.
V RAJESH. Spatial Perceptions in Early Tamil Poetry. Summerhill: IIAS Review 24(1):6, 2018.
Ravi Vaitheespara and Rajesh Venkatasubramanian. Beyond the Politics of Identity: The Left and the Politics of Caste and Identity in Tamil Nadu, 1920–63. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 38(4):543–557, 2015.
V Rajesh. Manuscripts, Memory and History: Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India. 2014.
V Rajesh. Intellectual Awakening in Late 19th Century Tamilnadu: A Study of P. Sundaram Pillai. Journal of Tamil Studies 83:49–60, 2013.
V Rajesh. Review of Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India, edited by Michael Bergunder, Heiko Frese, and Ulrike Schröder. Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 3(2):415–19, 2013.
V Rajesh. Patrons and Networks of Patronage in the Publication of Tamil Classics, c 1800-1920. Social Scientist 39(3/4):64–91, 2011.
V Rajesh. The Making of Sangam Literary Canon and Tamil Identity. In New Demarcations. Essays In Tamil Studies. Scholars' Press, Toronto, 2008, pages 133–148.
V Rajesh. Evaluating the Meanings of Globalization on a Caste Association in Contemporary Tamilnadu. In After Globalization: Essays in Religion, Culture and Identity. Allied Publishers, 2007, pages 139–149.
V Rajesh. Text and Time in Early Tamilakam. In Negotiations with the Past: Classical Tamil in Contemporary Tamil. Department of Indology, French Institute Pondicherry and Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2006, pages 231–265.
V Rajesh. The making of the ancient Tamil literary canon. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 67. 2006, 153–161.
V Rajesh. The written and the oral in early Tamil society. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 66. 2005, 102–109.