Karthik Raja Karuppusamy

KARTHIK RAJA KARUPPUSAMY is a first generation graduate from a Shudra family. Currently a doctoral candidate and senior research fellow at the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, his research focuses on the political, legal and socio-economic interface between Dalits and OBCs in the Kongunad region of Tamil Nadu. His MPhil dissertation, ‘The Nation in Historical Imagination’, theorizes how secular and communal conceptions of the ‘nation’ are constructed, operationalized and disseminated through state-sponsored NCERT history textbooks post-Independence.