Pranav Gulukota
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Biography
I am interested in how social movements serve as sites of pedagogy, 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, from 1920 to 1960.
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
- FLAS, for study of Tamil, Summer 2022
- Summer Mentor Research Fellowship, Summer 2022 and Summer 2023
- Ronald and Anne Mellor Endowed Fund
- Friends of History Endowed Fund
- Division of Graduate Education Fellowship, Spring 2025
Conference Presentations
- “Political Engineering: River Negotiations Between Hyderabad State and the Madras Presidency” at Telugu Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, December 2022
- 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
- “Internationalist Consciousness in the Marxist Movements of South India,” at Afterlives of the Tricontinental Workshop, UC Irvine, May 2025
