A R Venkatachalapathy

A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY is professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. An accomplished writer, he has published widely on the social, cultural and intellectual history of Tamil Nadu. His publications include In Those Days There Was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History; The Province of the Book Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu; and, as editor, Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry. Venkatachalapathy is the winner of the V.K.R.V. Rao Prize (2007).