Talk:Tharakeshwar V.B.

By Sachi Anjunkar

Tharakeshwar V. B. is a Professor at the Department of Translation Studies at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India as of May 2024. According to his profile, he has published in the areas of Translation Studies, Colonialism and Nationalism, Linguistic Nationalism/Identity, Literary Historiography etc.

In 2016, he signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely stated:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India

Articles in Journals

1. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Translation Practices in Pre-colonial India: Interrogating Stereotypes." Translation Today, vol. 3, no. 1-2, 2006, pp. 83-110. ISSN 0972-8740.
2. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Translations into Kannada in the 10th Century: Comments on Precolonial Translation." Translation Today, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 126-144. ISSN 0972-8740.
3. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Translating Nationalism: The Politics of Language and Community." Journal of Karnataka Studies, Nov. 2003 - Apr. 2004.

   The author, Tharakeshwar V.B. argues that religious nationalism is observed in India and makes several fictitious claims to support his argument:

   1. Hindu society tried to eject the Muslim State out of the circle of Hindu social practices. This resulted in a sharp hiatus between the political power of the State and the social dominance inside the Hindu communities. The conversion to Islam that took place during this period also helped certain groups to escape caste oppression."
   2. "in India, there were attempts to equate the nation with religion: in India, we see a kind of religion-based nationalism. In the Indian nationalist discourse, we can see an equation of Hindu and India (or rather Bharat)."
   3. "In fact, this secular notion of an Indian community was able to secure hegemony over Hindu nationalism. But this so-called secular imagination of an Indian community was not able to suppress other discourses that were trying to provide a religious basis to the nation in the post-colonial era after it sat at the helm of affairs of the nation."

   The author believes that the Bhakti was not native to Hindu Dharma and that it was a result of religious exchange

Books Authored

1. Tharakeshwar, V. B. Vasahatushahi Mattu Bashanthara (in Kannada, Colonialism and Translation). Prasaranga, Kannada University-Hampi, 2006.

Books Edited

1. Tharakeshwar, V. B., and Nikhila, editors. Kaleidoscope: English 1&2 for Visual Arts. Prasaranga, Kannada University-Hampi, 2009. ISBN-10: 8190977253, ISBN-13: 978-8190977258.
2. Tharakeshwar, V. B., editor. Reprovincializing Knowledge: Translations of Research from Kannada University. Prasaranga, Kannada University-Hampi, 2022. ISBN 978-93-92484-33-9.

Chapters in Books

1. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Translation in Translation: Colonialism and Caste in Mysore, an Indian Princely State." Translation and the Construction of Identity - IATIS Year Book 2005, edited by Julian House, M. Rosario Martin Ruano, and Nicole Baumgarten, IATIS, Seoul, Korea, 2005, pp. 128-147. ISSN 1738-8775, ISBN 978-89-967454-0-1.
2. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Visualizing Kannada in the Context of Postmodernity and Postcoloniality." Cinemas of South India: Culture, Resistance, Ideology, edited by Sowmya Dechamma and E. Satya Prakash, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2010, pp. 158-169. ISBN 978-0-19-806795-5, ISBN 0-19-806795-X.
3. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Translating Tragedy into Kannada: Politics of Genre and the Nationalist Elite." Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond, edited by Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari, Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 2009, pp. 57-74. ISBN 978-90-272-2430-9. Indian edition by Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014. ISBN 978-81-250-5458-0.
4. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Pre-Colonial Notions of Translation: A Study of Kannada Texts." Translation/Representation, edited by Anisur Rahman and Ameena Kazi Ansari, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2007, pp. 125-134. ISBN 81-8043-046-4.
5. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Competing Imaginations: Language and Anti-colonial Nationalism." Interrogating Reorganization of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India, edited by Asha Sarangi and Sudha Pai, Routledge, London/New York/New Delhi, 2011, pp. 190-208. ISBN 978-0-415-68558-0.
6. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Afterword: Collective Conscious and Individual Identity." Government Brahmana, by Arvinda Malgatti, translated by Dharani Devi Malagatti, Janet Vucinich, and N. Subramanya, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2007, pp. 119-129. ISBN 978-81-250-3216-8.
7. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Caste and Language: The Debate on English in India." English in the Dalit Context, edited by Alladi Uma, Sunita Rani, and Murali Manohar, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014, pp. 169-180. ISBN 978-8125055198.
8. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "English as a Language of Livelihood and as an Aspirational Language." English and Other International Languages: Volume 37 of People’s Linguistic Survey of India, General Editor G. N. Devy, Volume Editor T. Vijaya Kumar, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad/New Delhi, 2018, pp. 43-50. ISBN 978-9352872923.
9. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Historical Multilingual Landscape of India: Through the Prism of Literary Translations." Multilingualism and Literary Cultures of India, edited by M. T. Ansari, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2019, pp. 123-142. ISBN 978-9389467536.
10. Tharakeshwar, V. B. "Empire Writes Back? Kannada Travel Fiction and Nationalist Discourse." Travel Writing and the Empire, edited by Sachidananda Mohanty, Katha, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 126-149. ISBN 978-8187649366.