Dilip M Menon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dilip M Menon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dilip M |
| FAMILY NAME | Menon |
| SIGNATURE | MENON D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5557-0073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reverence and Contempt: Ambedkar on Caste; Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India by V Geetha, London: Palgrave Macmillan, South Asian Edition, 2022; pp xvii + 341, ₹1,895
V Geetha, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India (London, Palgrave Macmillan, South Asian Edition 2022), pp. xvii+341 ISBN 9783030803742
Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
This chapter addresses the question of the transformations of caste identities under colonialism. It addresses conceptualizations such as the colonial “invention” of caste and “sankritization” and makes a historical argument rooted more in the longue duree. Under the carapace of colonialism, there was much flux in social and economic relations as also the emergence of a labor diaspora across Empire. Much of what happened to social relations refle…
Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000
Journal Article Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000. Get access Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxv, 275. Paper $25.99. Dilip Menon Dilip Menon University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
Ocean as Method: Thinking With the Maritime
No orchids for Mr. Raffles. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas' Thomas Stamford Raffles
Oceanic Histories
With global warming, the waters rise and the oceans lap at our doorsteps. More than ever, there is a need to engage with oceanic histories and move away from terra-centric histories. Existing paradigms within social sciences and humanities centred on nations and area studies do not allow for an engagement with the urgency of our time. This essay reconsiders the question of globalization and history through an engagement with the continuous oceans…
Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South
Within intellectual traditions in the Global South, there have been reflections on notions of self, community, and governance for several hundred years preceding the growth of a Euro-American conceptual vocabulary forged in the crucible of empire and Europe's self-appointed role in the world. Recovering these categories of thought is not merely an act of sentimentality, it is rather, a stepping out beyond the glare of an ignorance created by Euro…
Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: A black South African traveller in East Africa and India
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History
Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, Sou…
Walking on Water: Globalization and History
Essay| March 19 2020 Walking on Water: Globalization and History Collections: Section: Culture, Values, and Identities , Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Dilip M. Menon Dilip M. Menon University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Global Perspectives (2020) 1 (1): 12176. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.12176 Connected Content related: Globalization and th…
Fifty Shades of Blackness: Recovering an Aesthetics of the Afrifuge
Black lives and histories are to the fore at the moment: from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States to the movement to decolonize syllabi and pedagogy in South African universities. The film Black Panther is watched within a visual and political terrain in which the black body is presented no longer only within histories of previous abjection—slavery and apartheid—but in visions of future reconstitution. This article will put together the changi…
Thinking about the Global South: Affinity and Knowledge
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An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2017 An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century Dilip M. Menon Dilip M. Menon Dilip M Menon is Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the author of The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India (2006) and editor of Cultural History of Modern India (2011). Search for other works by this author on: This…
A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala
The Communist Party of India (CPI) adopted a revolutionary line in 1948, but agrarian insurrection was efficiently suppressed by the newly independent Indian state. The CPI moved towards an engagement with parliamentary communism, and in 1957, Kerala became the first state in the world to elect a communist government to power. However, the idea of transformative, revolutionary violence stayed alive and became the premise for brutal internecine wa…
Writing History in Colonial Times: Polemic and the Recovery of Self in Late Nineteenth‐century South India
This essay looks at two early texts by a Hindu religious figure, Chattampi Svamikal (1853–1924), from Kerala, the southwestern region of India. Kristumatachhedanam (1890) [A Refutation of Christianity] and Pracina Malayalam (1899) [The Ancient Malayalam Region] draw upon a variety of sources across space and time: the echoes of contemporary debates across India and Empire as much as the detritus of the Enlightenment contest between rationalism an…
Bandung Is Back
Contemporary considerations of the Bandung Conference and the vision of Afro-Asian affinity that it raised have been tinged with skepticism. Through the lens of a world defined by the Cold War, with its vision of decolonized people coming together against the West with a spirit of ressentiment, Afro-Asian solidarity means little more for the former colonial powers than a pragmatic politics of a new elite seeking to consolidate itself. Very little…
Living together separately in South Africa
This piece provides a response to the four articles in this edition. Drawing on some of the major themes from the articles, it asks what are the forms and meanings of new communities in post-apartheid urban South Africa
An Ordinary Country
South Africans see themselves as a nation that loves sport, but with the World Cup in football imminent, there appears to be a sense of exhaustion both in the media and among the population. One important reason is that football does not dominate the public imagination of sport, as cricket and rugby do. The game is played and loved in the black townships, the fortunes of African football-playing nations are followed devotedly, and players such as…
Things Fall Apart: The Cinematic Rendition of Agrarian Landscape in South India
This article explores the transitional decade of the 1970s in the history of the southwestern state of Kerala, India, through the films and novels of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, arguably the most important litterateur in Kerala today. After the historic election of a Communist ministry to power in 1957, Kerala then stepped gingerly back from a radical politics and moved towards a restitution of an older masculine, agrarian order. By looking at the shift…
Caste and colonial modernity: Reading Saraswativijayam
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India, Malabar, 1900-1948
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar 1900-1948
The Moral Community of the Teyyattam: Popular Culture in Late Colonial Malabar
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar 1900-1948
Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South
Things Fall Apart: The Cinematic Rendition of Agrarian Landscape in South India
This article explores the transitional decade of the 1970s in the history of the southwestern state of Kerala, India, through the films and novels of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, arguably the most important litterateur in Kerala today. After the historic election of a Communist ministry to power in 1957, Kerala then stepped gingerly back from a radical politics and moved towards a restitution of an older masculine, agrarian order. By looking at the shift…
Living together separately in South Africa
This piece provides a response to the four articles in this edition. Drawing on some of the major themes from the articles, it asks what are the forms and meanings of new communities in post-apartheid urban South Africa
Caste and colonial modernity: Reading Saraswativijayam
The Moral Community of the Teyyattam: Popular Culture in Late Colonial Malabar
Writing History in Colonial Times: Polemic and the Recovery of Self in Late Nineteenth‐century South India
This essay looks at two early texts by a Hindu religious figure, Chattampi Svamikal (1853–1924), from Kerala, the southwestern region of India. Kristumatachhedanam (1890) [A Refutation of Christianity] and Pracina Malayalam (1899) [The Ancient Malayalam Region] draw upon a variety of sources across space and time: the echoes of contemporary debates across India and Empire as much as the detritus of the Enlightenment contest between rationalism an…
Bandung Is Back
Contemporary considerations of the Bandung Conference and the vision of Afro-Asian affinity that it raised have been tinged with skepticism. Through the lens of a world defined by the Cold War, with its vision of decolonized people coming together against the West with a spirit of ressentiment, Afro-Asian solidarity means little more for the former colonial powers than a pragmatic politics of a new elite seeking to consolidate itself. Very little…
An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2017 An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century Dilip M. Menon Dilip M. Menon Dilip M Menon is Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the author of The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India (2006) and editor of Cultural History of Modern India (2011). Search for other works by this author on: This…
Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South
Within intellectual traditions in the Global South, there have been reflections on notions of self, community, and governance for several hundred years preceding the growth of a Euro-American conceptual vocabulary forged in the crucible of empire and Europe's self-appointed role in the world. Recovering these categories of thought is not merely an act of sentimentality, it is rather, a stepping out beyond the glare of an ignorance created by Euro…
Fifty Shades of Blackness: Recovering an Aesthetics of the Afrifuge
Black lives and histories are to the fore at the moment: from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States to the movement to decolonize syllabi and pedagogy in South African universities. The film Black Panther is watched within a visual and political terrain in which the black body is presented no longer only within histories of previous abjection—slavery and apartheid—but in visions of future reconstitution. This article will put together the changi…
A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala
The Communist Party of India (CPI) adopted a revolutionary line in 1948, but agrarian insurrection was efficiently suppressed by the newly independent Indian state. The CPI moved towards an engagement with parliamentary communism, and in 1957, Kerala became the first state in the world to elect a communist government to power. However, the idea of transformative, revolutionary violence stayed alive and became the premise for brutal internecine wa…
The Moral Community of the Teyyattam: Popular Culture in Late Colonial Malabar
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar 1900-1948
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India, Malabar, 1900-1948
Caste and colonial modernity: Reading Saraswativijayam
Things Fall Apart: The Cinematic Rendition of Agrarian Landscape in South India
This article explores the transitional decade of the 1970s in the history of the southwestern state of Kerala, India, through the films and novels of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, arguably the most important litterateur in Kerala today. After the historic election of a Communist ministry to power in 1957, Kerala then stepped gingerly back from a radical politics and moved towards a restitution of an older masculine, agrarian order. By looking at the shift…
An Ordinary Country
South Africans see themselves as a nation that loves sport, but with the World Cup in football imminent, there appears to be a sense of exhaustion both in the media and among the population. One important reason is that football does not dominate the public imagination of sport, as cricket and rugby do. The game is played and loved in the black townships, the fortunes of African football-playing nations are followed devotedly, and players such as…
Living together separately in South Africa
This piece provides a response to the four articles in this edition. Drawing on some of the major themes from the articles, it asks what are the forms and meanings of new communities in post-apartheid urban South Africa
Bandung Is Back
Contemporary considerations of the Bandung Conference and the vision of Afro-Asian affinity that it raised have been tinged with skepticism. Through the lens of a world defined by the Cold War, with its vision of decolonized people coming together against the West with a spirit of ressentiment, Afro-Asian solidarity means little more for the former colonial powers than a pragmatic politics of a new elite seeking to consolidate itself. Very little…
Writing History in Colonial Times: Polemic and the Recovery of Self in Late Nineteenth‐century South India
This essay looks at two early texts by a Hindu religious figure, Chattampi Svamikal (1853–1924), from Kerala, the southwestern region of India. Kristumatachhedanam (1890) [A Refutation of Christianity] and Pracina Malayalam (1899) [The Ancient Malayalam Region] draw upon a variety of sources across space and time: the echoes of contemporary debates across India and Empire as much as the detritus of the Enlightenment contest between rationalism an…
A Prehistory of Violence? Revolution and Martyrs in the Making of a Political Tradition in Kerala
The Communist Party of India (CPI) adopted a revolutionary line in 1948, but agrarian insurrection was efficiently suppressed by the newly independent Indian state. The CPI moved towards an engagement with parliamentary communism, and in 1957, Kerala became the first state in the world to elect a communist government to power. However, the idea of transformative, revolutionary violence stayed alive and became the premise for brutal internecine wa…
An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
Research Article| April 01 2017 An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century Dilip M. Menon Dilip M. Menon Dilip M Menon is Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the author of The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India (2006) and editor of Cultural History of Modern India (2011). Search for other works by this author on: This…
Thinking about the Global South: Affinity and Knowledge
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History
Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, Sou…
Walking on Water: Globalization and History
Essay| March 19 2020 Walking on Water: Globalization and History Collections: Section: Culture, Values, and Identities , Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Dilip M. Menon Dilip M. Menon University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Global Perspectives (2020) 1 (1): 12176. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.12176 Connected Content related: Globalization and th…
Fifty Shades of Blackness: Recovering an Aesthetics of the Afrifuge
Black lives and histories are to the fore at the moment: from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States to the movement to decolonize syllabi and pedagogy in South African universities. The film Black Panther is watched within a visual and political terrain in which the black body is presented no longer only within histories of previous abjection—slavery and apartheid—but in visions of future reconstitution. This article will put together the changi…
Ocean as Method: Thinking With the Maritime
No orchids for Mr. Raffles. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas' Thomas Stamford Raffles
Oceanic Histories
With global warming, the waters rise and the oceans lap at our doorsteps. More than ever, there is a need to engage with oceanic histories and move away from terra-centric histories. Existing paradigms within social sciences and humanities centred on nations and area studies do not allow for an engagement with the urgency of our time. This essay reconsiders the question of globalization and history through an engagement with the continuous oceans…
Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South
Within intellectual traditions in the Global South, there have been reflections on notions of self, community, and governance for several hundred years preceding the growth of a Euro-American conceptual vocabulary forged in the crucible of empire and Europe's self-appointed role in the world. Recovering these categories of thought is not merely an act of sentimentality, it is rather, a stepping out beyond the glare of an ignorance created by Euro…
Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: A black South African traveller in East Africa and India
Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000
Journal Article Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000. Get access Claude Markovits. India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxv, 275. Paper $25.99. Dilip Menon Dilip Menon University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical…
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations
Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
This chapter addresses the question of the transformations of caste identities under colonialism. It addresses conceptualizations such as the colonial “invention” of caste and “sankritization” and makes a historical argument rooted more in the longue duree. Under the carapace of colonialism, there was much flux in social and economic relations as also the emergence of a labor diaspora across Empire. Much of what happened to social relations refle…
Reverence and Contempt: Ambedkar on Caste; Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India by V Geetha, London: Palgrave Macmillan, South Asian Edition, 2022; pp xvii + 341, ₹1,895
V Geetha, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India (London, Palgrave Macmillan, South Asian Edition 2022), pp. xvii+341 ISBN 9783030803742
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