A. R. Venkatachalapathy

A. R. Venkatachalapathy is a historian, author, and translator who writes in Tamil and English. His scholarship has illuminated the social, cultural, and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Tamil Nadu. His books include “The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamil Nadu” and “In Those Days There Was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History”.