A. R. Venkatachalapathy

A. R. Venkatachalapathy is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. He was the ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore (2011–12). He was awarded the V. K. R. V. Rao Prize (history, 2007) and Vilakku Pudumaippithan Award for lifetime contribution to Tamil (2018). Chalapathy has published widely on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of colonial Tamilnadu. A few of his publications in English include Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics, Culture (2019), Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright (2018), and The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu (2012). Presently, he is working on biographies of Periyar and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai.