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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.

 

Research Areas

  • Intellectual History
  • Gandhi Studies
  • History of Political Thought 
  • Hispanic-America
  • University History 

Research Supervision

  • 2021 Shewale, Tanvi. 2021. Impact of the Revolution in France (1789 – 1815): An Exploratory Study. Study Project F266. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani. (Viva exam/oral defence online 08 Dec 2021).
  • 2021 Ashrith. 2021. An Examination of the American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1965) and the Black Lives Matter Movement (2013-2020). First Degree/Undergraduate Thesis/Dissertation BITS F423T Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani. (Viva exam/oral defence online 24 Dec 2021).
  • 2020 Agrawal, Vidhi. 2020. Fostering Dialogical Governance: The Role of the Jan Sunwai in the People's Movement towards Transparency (Rajasthan, circa 1993-2012). Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani. (Viva exam/oral defence online 22.08.2020)
  • 2019 Garg, Anshul. 2019. A Study of the People's Movements for the Establishment of Select Universities in India (1857-1930). Study Project Report (HSS F266). Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani.
  • 2018 Deb, Swarupa. 2018. Contesting the Gender Binary: A Study on the Changing Status of Transgender Communities in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal and Tripura between circa 1990 and 2016. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani. (Viva exam/oral defence 27.09.2018)
  • 2016 Tibrewala, Yash. 2016. Gandhian Educational Philosophy and the University in the Context of the Indian Islamic Identity. Study Project Report (HSS F266). Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani.
  • 2015 Adavi, Krishna Akhil Kumar. 2015. Gandhi in South Africa and the Question of Race. Bachelor's Degree Thesis submitted to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani. 
  • 2015 Yadav, Chirag, Sreekar Raghotham, Srishti Dhamija, Vinod Subramanian. 2015. Founding Mothers of the Indian Constitution. Study Project Report (HSS F266). Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani. 
  • 2014 N, Viknesh. 2014. An Exploratory Study on the Origins of Technical Education and the Technological University in Modern India. First-Degree Thesis (BITS C422T). Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani.

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