Publications

Dr. Harikrishnan Gopinadhan Nair

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

harinair@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

01596-25-5703

Research Publications

2023 Book Chapter Hari Nair, Swaha Das, Neel Shah. ‘Struggle for Racial Equality through Active Nonviolence: The African-American Engagement with Gandhi circa 1920-1947’. In Milind Wani and Sucharita Dutta-Asane, ed., 2023, Ecosophies of Freedom: Suturing Social, Ecological & Spiritual Rift, Kolkata: Earthcare Books, pp. 223-252.
2021 Book Chapter Das, Swaha and Hari Nair ‘Incorporating Ahimsa into India’s Constitutional Morality’. In Reflections on Mahatma Gandhi: The Global Perspectives, edited by Terry Beitzel and Chandrakant Langare, Delhi: Rawat, pp. 127-131.
2021 E-book Sharma, Yogendra, Hari Nair and Swaha Das. Hispanic Gandhiana Bibliography. Jalgaon: Gandhi Research Foundation. E-book http://gandhifoundation.net/books.htm
2020 Journal Article Nair, Hari and Swaha Das. ‘Ambidextrous Gandhi’. Gandhi Marg, Vol. 42, Issue 3, October-December 2020, pp. 227-230. UGC-Care Group 1. https://gandhimargjournal.org/2021/07/19/volume-42issue-3-october-december-2020/
2020 Journal Article Das Swaha, Hari Nair, Yogendra Sharma, 'La Bhagavad Gita y sus interpretaciones políticas modernas' [The Bhagavad Gita and its Modern political interpretations], Interpretatio: Revista de hermeneutica, Vol. 5; Num 20, pp. 169-184. DOI: 10.19130/iifl.it.2020.5.2.00011
2019 Book Chapter Krishna Akhil Kumar Adavi, Hari Nair and Swaha Das, ‘Gandhi and the 'race' question’ in Sanjeev Kumar, ed., 2019, Gandhi and the contemporary world, Oxford and New York: Routledge, pp. 157-168. A South Asian edition was published in January 2020.
2018 Journal Article Agrawal, Vidhi and Hari Nair. “From Jan Sunwai to Rajasthan Right to Hearing Act 2012: Fostering transparency and accountability through citizen engagement” Studies in Indian Politics, vol. 6, number 2, December 2018, pp. 282-296.
2018 Journal Article Agrawal, Vidhi and Hari Nair. "Institutionalising social audit in Meghalaya" Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 53, Issue No. 33, 18 August 2018, pp. 17-19. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/33/commentary/institutionalising-social-audit.html
2017 Journal Article Bhattacharya, Somdatta, Swarupa Deb, Hari Nair, Tanu Shukla, and Anupam Yadav. 2017. "Critical Perspectives on the National Policy on Education 2016". Higher Education for the Future 4 (2): 129-146. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2347631117706261
2013 Journal Article Swaha Das and Hari Nair “Visions of secularism in India” co-authored in Canadian Diversity, vol. 10:1, Spring2013, pp. 44-8, published by the Association for Canadian Studies. http://www.acs-aec.ca/pdf/pubs/toc/CanadianDiversity_rethinking-equity-in-quebec-india-towards-inclusive-societies_toc.pdf
2012-3 Book Chapter David Gómez Arredondo and Hari Nair “Between Café and Cigarillos: Notes towards mapping the research trajectory and the intellectual legacy of Fernando Ortiz through a study of his select works” in The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues and Challenges, edited by Raymond Izarali and Priti Singh (New Delhi: Shipra). ISBN: 978-81-7541-659-8. https://www.worldcat.org/title/contemporary-caribbean-issues-and-challenges/oclc/823583558&referer=brief_results
2010 Monograph Hari Nair, “The sovereign and the subjects”, Working Paper No. 10-14 published by the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825, coordinated by Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University. https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/Seminar-%20General/seminarabstracts.html
2009 Book Chapter Hari Nair, Consentimiento y autonomía política del indio americano en el pensamiento tardío de fray Bartolomé de Las Casas” (pp. 217-40) in Enrique González, Mónica Hidalgo and Adriana Álvarez, eds., 2009, “Del aula a la ciudad. Estudios sobre universidad y sociedad en el México virreinal, IISUE-UNAM, México DF, 1st edition, 453 pages, ISBN 978-607-02-0414-2.

Teaching-Learning Publications

2022 Book Chapter Chakraborty, Shamik and Hari Nair, ‘Teaching Learning Centre: Why, What and How?’ in TLC: A Seven Year Journey edited by Shibani Khanra Jha, Tamali Bhattacharyya, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar, and Ajeet Singh Shekhawat, pp. 14-17.
2022 Book Chapter Guha Sarkar, Tapomoy and Hari Nair, ‘Teaching Learning Centre in Transition’ in TLC: A Seven Year Journey edited by Shibani Khanra Jha, Tamali Bhattacharyya, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar, and Ajeet Singh Shekhawat, pp. 22-23.
2022 Book Chapter Das, Swaha and Hari Nair, ‘Traditions of Republican Citizenship’. In Citizenship in a Globalizing World edited by Ashok Acharya, 107-128, Delhi: Pearson, 2022.
2020 Journal Article Das, Swaha and Hari Nair, 'Reflections on teaching-learning in Gandhi Studies', Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 8, Issue 2, page(s): 281-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/2321023020963841
2016 Journal Article Hari Nair “Where teachers learn” Economic and Political Weekly, 30 April 2016, vol. LI, no. 18, pp. 128-30. http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/18/discussion/where-teachers-learn.html
2015 Online Swaha Das and Hari Nair, “Rousseau on inequality” http://vle.du.ac.in/mod/book/view.php?id=13043 Virtual Learning Environment, Institute for LifeLong Learning, University of Delhi. Accessed 05 May 2017
2011 Book Chapter Swaha Das and Hari Nair “Republican citizenship” in Ashok Acharya, ed., Citizenship in a Globalising World, Delhi: Pearson, 2011. ISBN: 978-81-317-6094-9
2009 Book Chapter Swaha Das and Hari Nair “The nature and functioning of democracy” chapter XIII in Neera Chandoke and Praveen Priyadarshi, eds., 2009, Contemporary India: Economy, Politics and Society, Pearson-Longman, Delhi.
2008 Book Chapter Swaha Das and Hari Nair, BLOCK IV Chapter 12 “Human Rights: Threats and Challenges” Unit 13 Human Rights: State and Society (India) for Indira Gandhi National Open University.
2008 Book Chapter Swaha Das and Hari Nair, “Human rights: The Indian Traditions” for Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Translations

2009 Book Chapter Carlos Montemayor, ‘Identity, indigenous insurrections, and ‘A different equality’ in Priti Singh, ed., Indigenous identity and activism, Shipra Publications, Delhi. https://www.worldcat.org/title/indigenous-identity-and-activism/oclc/837075082&referer=brief_results
2003 Journal Enrique González González, 2003, ‘The encounter of Luis Vives (1492/3-1540) and Hadrianus Barlandus (1486-1538) in Louvain, 1514?-1515’, Lias 30 (2003) 2, pp. 177-212, ISSN 0304-0003 (Leiden). https://www.worldcat.org/title/encounter-of-luis-vives-14923-1540-and-hadrianus-barlandus-1486-1538-in-louvain-1514-1515/oclc/779183767&referer=brief_results

Reviews and Essays

2022 August Online Hari Nair 'Invasion rusa en Ucrania: Una perspectiva india' https://revistacomun.com/blog/invasion-rusa-en-ucrania-una-perspectiva-india/ ISSN: 2683-3042
2021 Media Bhattacharyya, Souvik and Hari Nair. “Education and Enterprise.” The Week, December 19, 2021.
https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2021/12/19/education-and-enterprise.html
2021 Online Magazine Bilingual Sharma Yogendra, Swaha Das and Hari Nair. ???????? ??? ??????? ?? ????????? ??? ??????? ????? (Article in Hindi). Khoj Gandhiji Ki (Hindi-English bilingual magazine), Issue 50, pp. 9-10. http://www.gandhifoundation.net/magazine-preview.htm?currentkhoj=50
2021 Media Nair, Hari 'Mahatma as Media Phenomenon' Review of Biswajit Das, ed., 2020, Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age, New Delhi: SAGE in Business Standard, 04 May 2021.
2018 Journal Nair, Hair Review of “Rila Mukerjee (ed.), Beyond National Frames: South Asian Pasts and the World. Delhi: Primus, 2015, 280 pp.” in Society and Culture in South Asia, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 312-317.
2016 Media Krishna Akhil Kumar Adavi, Swaha Das and Hari Nair “Was Gandhi a racist?” in The Hindu Sunday Magazine http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Was-Gandhi-a-racist/article16754773.ece Accessed 03 Dec 2016
2011 Media Joan Corderas i Plans, Swaha Das, Hari Nair and Yogendra Swaraj Sharma “On Gandhi’s trail” The Hindu Sunday Magazine, 2 October 2011. http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/on-gandhis-trail/article2503128.ece
2010 Media Hari Nair “Mountain of a Man”, A tribute to Carlos Montemayor, 5 September 2010, p. 6, of the Literary Review – a monthly supplement of The Hindu. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tpliteraryreview/article614711.ece
2009 Journal Hari Nair and Joan Corderas i Plans, “El silencio de la escritura” review of Arvind Gigoo, 2006, The ugly Kashmiri, Allied Publishers, New Delhi in Estudios de Asia y África, vol. xliv, mayo-agosto 2009, número 2, pp. 210-4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25614489
2008 November Online Hari Nair ‘Forging chats and chatting about forgeries’. In I found it at the JCB, online publication of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/I%20found%20it%20JCB/november08.html
2008 Journal Hari Nair, Review of Enrique González, 2007, Una república de lectores: Difusión y recepción de la obra de Juan Luis Vives, with the collaboration of Victor Gutiérrez, IISUE-UNAM, Mexico DF in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Vol. 39 (2008), pp. 274-5. DOI: 10.1353/cjm.2008.0024
2008 Journal Hari Nair “Lusting for memory, romancing with phantoms” a review of Nissim Mannathukkaren, 2006, The rupture with memory: Derrida and the spectres that haunt Marxism, Navayana, Chennai in The Book Review, (Delhi), vol. xxxii, no.5, May 2008, pp. 16-7. http://thebookreviewindia.org/lusting-for-memory-romancing-with-phantoms/
2007 Media Swaha Das and Hari Nair, “The craft of difficult writing” The Hindu Magazine, 30 December 2007. http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/12/30/stories/2007123050100300.htm

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