IISER MOHALI

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.

1. Nishat Zaidi. Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century. 2023.

2. Rajesh Venkatasubramanian. Progressivism and Tamil Modernity: Tracing the History of Progressive Literature in Tamil, 1940–1970. In Indian Modernities. Routledge India, 2023, pages 201–225.

3. Aloka Parasher-Sen. Seeking History Through Her Source: South of the Vindhyas. Orient BlackSwan Private Limited, 2022.

4. Aloka Parasher Sen. Seeking History through Her Source: South of the Vindhyas. 2022.

5. 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.

6. V Rajesh. The Russian Revolution and India. , 2020.

7. Ilasai Manian and Venkatasubramanian Rajesh. The Russian Revolution and India. 2020.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Bhavani Raman. Classical Tamil Literature. 2014.

11. Venkatasubramanian Rajesh. Manuscripts, Memory and History: Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India. 2014.

12. V Rajesh. Intellectual Awakening in Late 19th Century Tamilnadu: A Study of P. Sundaram Pillai. Journal of Tamil Studies 83:49–60, 2013.

13. V Rajesh. 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.

14. V Rajesh. Patrons and Networks of Patronage in the Publication of Tamil Classics, c 1800-1920. Social Scientist 39(3/4):64–91, 2011.

15. R Cheran, Darshan Ambalavanar and Chelvanayakam Kanaganayakam. New demarcations: Essays in Tamil studies. 2008.

16. V Rajesh. The Making of Sangam Literary Canon and Tamil Identity'. New Demarcations. Essays In Tamil Studies, eds R. Cheran, Darshan Ambalavanar and Chelva Kanaganayakam, Toronto, Canadian Scholars's Press Inc, pages 133–148, 2008.

17. 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.

18. 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~…, 2006, pages 231–265.

19. V Rajesh. The making of the ancient Tamil literary canon. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 67. 2006, 153–161.

20. V Rajesh. The written and the oral in early Tamil society. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 66. 2005, 102–109.

21. V RAJESH. Spatial Perceptions in Early Tamil Poetry. In Translation: Poems From the Malwa Region of Punjab 74, page 6.

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