Reading Periyar Now

Title: Reading Periyar Now

May 1, 2026 06:00 PM - online only - please register at the link below.

Abstract: This talk will discuss the Introduction and the chapter "Periyar's Anti-Aryanism" from The Cambridge Companion to Periyar. The discussion will revolve around Periyar's Self-Respect thought and his anti-caste praxis.

Bio: Karthick Ram Manoharan is Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is faculty of social sciences at National Law School of India University. He is the author of Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (2022) and Frantz Fanon: Identity and Resistance (2019), and the co-editor of the volumes The Cambridge Companion to Periyar (2025) and Rethinking Social Justice (2020).

If you don’t have access to the chapters, please feel free to reach out to Supriya Subramani at Supriya.subramani@sydney.edu.au

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