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V.M.S. Subagunarajan
V.M.S. Subagunarajan is an independent researcher based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He has published extensively in both Tamil and English on the Dravidian movement, with particular attention to the life, lectures, and ideas of Periyar (E.V. Ramasamy). He has also engaged with the cultural dimensions of Dravidian politics—including theatre, literature and film—analysing how political identity is formed, expressed and mobilized. He has co‐authored The Rule of the Commoner: DMK and the Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and co-edited Tamil Nadu: The Land of Social Justice (Tamil Nadu Text Book and Educational Service Corporation, Govt of Tamil Nadu). Long associated with Tamil literary and theatre movements, Subagunarajan’s scholarship is distinguished for its archival depth, careful and intensive use of vernacular texts and speeches, integrating them with concepts from political theory, and bridging of scholarly and public discourse.
