Pranav Gulukota
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Biography
I am interested in how social movements serve as sites of education, knowledge production, and intellectual activity, as well as how the praxis of politics renders political, cultural, linguistic, and ideological borders porous. In particular, I study social movements in the Telugu and Tamil speaking regions of South India, in Hyderabad State and Madras Presidency, in the twentieth century.
Current/Former HGSA Member
Publications
- “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan: The Environmental Politics of India’s Green Revolution”, Defining Environments: Critical Studies in the Natural World, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Humanities Research Institute, 2020
Awards & Grants
- Division of Graduate Education Fellowship, Spring 2025
- Friends of History Endowed Fund
- Ronald and Anne Mellor Endowed Fund
- Summer Mentor Research Fellowship, Summer 2022 and Summer 2023
- FLAS, for study of Tamil, Summer 2022
Conference Presentations
- “Internationalist Consciousness in the Marxist Movements of South India,” at Afterlives of the Tricontinental Workshop, UC Irvine, May 2025
- Chair, “The Commemoration of Warriors and Martyrs in South Asia” at AAS-in-Asia Conference, Kyungpook National University, South Korea, June 2023. Co-panelists: Baisakhi Sengupta, Shantanu Havaldar, George Pioustin, and Sarah Robinson
- “Political Engineering: River Negotiations Between Hyderabad State and the Madras Presidency” at Telugu Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, December 2022
