Gajendran Ayyathurai

Gajendran Ayyathurai is an anthropologist and a historian. Before going to Göttingen University, he taught at Columbia University, City University of New York, and William Paterson University, USA. He has published on the culture, memory, and history of the casteless Tamils/Indians in Tamil, English, and German. And he has initiated a new subfield, Critical Caste Studies, with scholars from India, Europe, and North America. Ayyathurai lives and works in Göttingen.