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Biography

Early life and education

He is from

Muvattupuzha Muvattupuzha () is a town in the midlands directly to the east of Kochi in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. It is located about from downtown Kochi, and is a growing urban centre in central Kerala. The town is also the starting poin ...

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and currently resides in Canada. He completed his B.A degree in Politics, Economics and History from

, M.A degree in Political Science and MPhil degrees in Political Science from

and PhD degree in Political Studies from Queen's University, Canada. .

Views

Caste system

Mannathukkaren writes in the final paragraph of his ''Being the privileged'' article, "Let us, similarly, in an upper caste-dominated society, acknowledge the vast undeserved space we occupy. Let us cede what has to be ceded.

Publications

Books

* Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism * Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India

Book chapters

* Nissim Mannathukkaren. (2018) The ‘people’ and the ‘political’. In Mujibur Rehman. (author) ''Rise of Saffron Power''. 1st Edition, Routledge. Pages 26. * Nissim Mannathukkaren, 2010, Reading cricket fiction in the times of Hindu nationalism and farmer suicides: Fallacies of textual interpretation, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, 26.

Articles

In India's English-language press, he writes

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s for The Hindu,The Wire,Indian Express,Telegraph,Outlook, Scroll, Quint,Deccan Chronicle, Newsclick, Citizen, openDemocracy, The Kochi Post, Janata Weekly and so forth.

The wire

*A Communal Virus and Our Collective Irrationality

open Democracy

* Modi government and the muzzling of the Indian media

Research

Mannathukkaren's research interests are primarily in the areas of Left and communist movements, Development and democracy, Modernity, Politics of popular culture and Marxist and postcolonial theories. Citizenship Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Critical Realism, International Journal of the History of Sport, Dialectical Anthropology, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Sikh Formations are among the journals that have published his work. * Communalism sans violence: A Keralan exceptionalism?

Book reviews

* Vinay Gidwani, Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India, 2009, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2009, 464–466.

Recognition

* 2000, The

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(CSFP) scholarship, for doctoral studies. * 2010, The

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH) is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and traini ...

of Canada (SSHRC) research award, for his project ‘Unveiling the Janus of Modernity: A Case Study of Kerala”.

Controversies

Nissim Mannathukkaren was one of the 250 writers and cultural activists who demanded the restoration of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, and the restoration of the state of Jammu & Kashmir.

Bibliography

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References

External links

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