Chinnaiah Jangam
Professor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Chinnaiah Jangam is a historian specializing in modern South Asia. He finished his Ph. D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK in 2005 and his thesis focused on the intellectual and political writings of Dalits against caste inequality and oppression in colonial South India. Currently he is working on a monograph based on his Ph. D. thesis. He is keenly interested in issues of social justice, human rights, self-respect and dignity, democracy and citizenship. Dr. Jangam has been the recipient of Felix Scholarship for doctoral studies in England. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at New York University and has taught in Wagner College in New York from 2006-2010. Since 2014, he has been cross-appointed with Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. In 2013, he was appointed Affiliate, Center for Oral History and Digital Story Telling, Concordia University.
Research Interest
Imperialism and its Legacies Decolonization, Nationalism and the Politics of Identity Caste and Untouchability Ambedkar, Gandhi, and Modernism Cultural History of the Indian Diaspora History of the Indian Ocean World
Publications
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“Elided History: Dalits in Hyderabad Public Sphere.†Forthcoming in the special issue “Competing Futures†of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. April 2016.
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“Politics of Identity and the Project of Writing History in Postcolonial India: A Dalit Critique†Economic and Political Weekly (Special article, peer-reviewed).
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“Dalit Resistance: A New Paradigm in South Asian Historiography,†Modern Asian Studies.
