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'''A R Venkatachalapathy''' is an Indian historian, author and translator who writes and publishes in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and English. Currently he is a professor at the [[Madras Institute of Development Studies]] (MIDS). He is noted for collecting and publishing the works of Tamil writer [[Pudhumaipithan]].<ref name="mids">
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|title=Chalapathy – Biography
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| people = Gopinath
| title = Neeya? Naana?
| medium = T. V. Talk show
| publisher = [[Vijay TV]]
| location = [[Chennai]]
| date = 21 December 2008}}
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==Education==
Venkatachalapathy obtained his [[Bachelor of Commerce|B.Com]] degree from [[University of Madras]] in 1987 and his [[Master of Arts|MA]] in History from [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] in 1989. He received his PhD in History from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in 1995.<ref name="mids"/> His dissertation was titled "A Social History of Tamil Publishing, (1850–1938)".<ref name="coffee">{{cite book | title=In Those Days There was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History| last=Vēṅkaṭācalapati|first=Ā. Irā | year=2006| publisher=Yoda Press|pages=xix| isbn=8190227270}}</ref>

==Career==
Venkatachalapathy worked in the History Department of [[Manonmaniam Sundaranar University]] from 1995 to 2000 and that of [[University of Madras]] from 2000 to 2001. Since June 2001, he has been a faculty member of the [[Madras Institute of Development Studies]] (MIDS). His main areas of research are social and cultural history of colonial Tamil Nadu.<ref name="mids"/> He is best known for collecting and publishing the works of Tamil writer [[Pudhumaipithan]] in 2000. In 2000, he published his most noted work ''Andha kaalathil kaapi illai'' (Kalachuvadu) in Tamil. Later he published an English Version – ''In Those Days There Was No Coffee'', ([[Yoda Press]], 2006). He currently serves in the advisory board of the ''Tamil iyal virudhu'', an annual award given by [[The Tamil Literary Garden|Tamil Literary Garden]], a Canada-based organisation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tamilliterarygarden.com/index.php?page=static_pages&name=gd8rcqiq4jk13 |title=Judges: Advisory board for Awards Panel |work=Tamil Literary Garden |access-date=11 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831233243/http://tamilliterarygarden.com/index.php?page=static_pages&name=gd8rcqiq4jk13 |archive-date=31 August 2009 }}</ref> He is regularly involved in '''[[The Hindu]]'' Literary Festival' (The Hindu ''[[Lit for Life]]'') annual events as a speaker, interviewer, resource person etc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindulfl.com/lfl-2018/|title=SPEAKERS 2018 – The Hindu LFL|last=A. R. Venkatachalapathy|access-date=8 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216232314/http://www.thehindulfl.com/lfl-2018/|archive-date=16 February 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also reviews books in ''[[The Hindu]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2010/03/30/stories/2010033052631800.htm|title= Understanding Hinduism |last=A. R. Venkatachalapathy|date=30 March 2010|work=The Hindu|access-date=5 April 2010|location=Chennai, India| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100409003814/http://www.hindu.com/br/2010/03/30/stories/2010033052631800.htm| archive-date= 9 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/10/16/stories/2007101650031500.htm|title= Window on pioneering cartoons |last=A. R. Venkatachalapathy|date=16 October 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=5 April 2010|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> In 2007, he was awarded the [[V. K. R. V. Rao]] prize in Social Science Research. He also writes columns for ''The Hindu'', ''[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]'', ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'', ''[[India Today]]'', ''[[Dinamalar]]'' and ''Kalachuvadu'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isec.ac.in/vkrvraoprize.htm|title= V K R V Rao Prizes in Social Science Research|work=Institute for Social and Economic Change|access-date=5 April 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100303035559/http://www.isec.ac.in/vkrvraoprize.htm| archive-date= 3 March 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2004/11/07/stories/2004110700460300.htm|title=The rise and fall of the bilingual intellectual|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|date=7 November 2004|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=4 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825092247/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2004/11/07/stories/2004110700460300.htm|archive-date=25 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?224457|title=Tamil Is Far Older|last=Anand|first=S|date=12 July 2004|work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|access-date=4 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayitems.asp?id=SEB20060428050618&eTitle=Books+%26+Literature&rLink=0|title=A R Venkatachalapathy|date=27 August 2008|work=[[Indian Express]]|access-date=4 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517161030/http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayItems.asp?id=SEB20060428050618&eTitle=Books+%26+Literature&rLink=0|archive-date=17 May 2006|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/23/stories/2005122302411300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907190628/http://hindu.com/2005/12/23/stories/2005122302411300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 September 2010|title= Net search throws up documentary on Gandhi |last=Subramanian |first=T. S. |date=23 December 2005|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=4 February 2010 |location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/05/stories/2004120500201100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050118150242/http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/05/stories/2004120500201100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 January 2005|title= Bharati's Tamil daily Vijaya traced in Paris |last=Subramanian|first=T. S|date=5 December 2004|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=6 April 2010|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>

==Awards and fellowships==
*Visiting Fellow, {{ill|Maison des Sciences de l'Homme|fr|Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme}}, Paris (1996).
*Visiting Fellow, Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme, {{ill|Maison des Sciences de l'Homme|fr|Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme}}, Paris (1997–1998).
*Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, [[University of Chicago]] (1999).
*UPE Visiting Fellow, [[University of Hyderabad]] (2005).
*Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, [[University of Cambridge]] (2006).<ref name="mids"/>
*[[V. K. R. V. Rao]] prize in Social Science Research (2007)

==Bibliography==

===Books in English===
* (trans.) Sundara Ramaswamy's J.J : Some Jottings, New Delhi : Katha (2003)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/45496/|title=The Great Indian Novel|last=Dasgupta-Mahadevan|first=Uma|work=Indian Express|access-date=5 April 2010}}</ref>
* (ed.) [[A. K. Chettiar]], In the Tracks of the Mahatma: The Making of a Documentary, Hyderabad: [[Orient Longman]] (2006)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/03/20/stories/2007032000201500.htm|title= Documentary on Gandhiji |last=La. Su. Rengarajan|date=20 March 2007|work=The Hindu|access-date=5 April 2010|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
* In Those Days There Was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History, New Delhi: [[Yoda Press]] (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?230772|title=The Kaapi Cats|last=Shiv Viswanathan|date=3 April 2006|work=Outlook|access-date=5 April 2010}}</ref>
* (ed.) Chennai, Not Madras: Perspectives on the City, Mumbai: Marg (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2325/stories/20061229000507800.htm|title=Madras to Chennai|last=S. Theodore Baskaran|author-link=S. Theodore Baskaran|date=16 December 2006|work=[[Frontline (magaine)|Frontline]]|access-date=5 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324094455/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2325/stories/20061229000507800.htm|archive-date=24 March 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*''Kalaikkalanjiyam'': the making of the Tamil encyclopaedia, 1947–1968, Centre of South Asian Studies, [[Cambridge University Press|University of Cambridge]] (2007)
* (ed.) Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry (translated by [[M. L. Thangappa]]), New Delhi: [[Penguin Books]] (2010)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2010/03/07/stories/2010030750210400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216143701/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2010/03/07/stories/2010030750210400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2011|title= When the bees sing |last=Venkatachalapathy|first=A. R|access-date=5 April 2010|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=7 March 2010}}</ref>

===Books in Tamil===
* (ed.) ''Pudumaippithan Kathaigal'' (first volume of chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Pudumaippithan), Nagercoil (2000)
* ''Andha Kalathil Kappi Illai Muthalana Aaivu Katturaigal'' (collection of research papers on Tamil cultural history), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam (2000)
* (ed.) ''Pudumaippithan Katturaigal'' (second volume of chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Pudumaippithan), Nagercoil (2002)
* ''Novelum Vasippum: Oru Varalattru Parvai'' (Early Novels and Reading Practices: A Historical View), Nagercoil (2002).
* ''A.K.Chettiar, Annal Adichuvattil'' (The making of the documentary, Mahatma Gandhi), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam (2003).
* ''Mullai: Oar Arimugam'', Chennai: Mullai Pathippagam (2004)
* (ed.) ''Pudumaippithan Mozhipeyarppukal'' (third volume of the chronological and variorum edition of the complete works of Pudumaippithan), Nagercoil (2006)
* ''Mucchanthi Ilakkiyam'' (Popular Literature in Colonial Tamil Nadu), Nagercoil (2004)
* (ed.), ''Bharatiyin 'Vijaya' Katturaigal'', Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam (2004).
* (trans.) ''Thuyarmiku Varikalai Indriravu Nan Ezhutalam'' (Tamil Translation of [[Pablo Neruda]]), Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam (2005)
* (trans.) ''Varalaarum Karuthiyalum'' (Tamil translation of Past and Prejudice by [[Romila Thapar]]), Delhi: [[National Book Trust]] (2008)
* (trans.) ''Bharati Karuvoolam: Hindu Nalithalil Bharatiyin Eluthukal'', Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam (2008)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://penguin.co.in/book_author/a-r-venkatachalapathy/ A. R. Venkatachalapathy] at [[Penguin India]]
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