Remembering Pandian

M S S Pandian, who passed away in New Delhi after a cardiac arrest on 10 November 2014, at the age of 57, was among the younger members who joined the editorial collective of the Subaltern Studies in 1990. A few of us had known him from the time he was a PhD student at the University of Madras, working on agrarian change in colonial Nanchilnadu. Trained in the formal methods of economic history and Marxian political economy, he was already curious about ways to extend his academic work into the fi elds of politics and culture.

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