T. M. Thomas Isaac

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{{short description|Indian politician and economist}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[Doctor (title)|Doctor]]
| name = T. M. Thomas Isaac
| native_name = ടി എം തോമസ് ഐസക്
| native_name_lang = Malayalam
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| office = [[First Vijayan ministry#Council of Ministers|Minister for Finance and Coir]], [[Government of Kerala|Kerala]]
| term_start = 25 May 2016
| term_end = 3 May 2021
| predecessor = [[K. M. Mani]]{{efn|For Finance}}<br>[[Adoor Prakash]]{{efn|For Coir}}
| successor = [[K. N. Balagopal]]

| office1 = [[Department of Finance (Kerala)|Minister of Finance]], [[Government of Kerala|Kerala]]
| term_start1 = 18 May 2006
| term_end1 = 16 May 2011
| predecessor1 = [[K. Sankaranarayanan]]
| successor1 = [[K. M. Mani]]

| office2 = Member of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start2 = 23 May 2011
| term_end2 = 3 May 2021
| constituency2 = [[Alappuzha (State Assembly constituency)|Alappuzha]]
| predecessor2 = A. A. Shukoor
| successor2 = [[P. P. Chitharanjan]]

| term_start3 = 16 May 2001
| term_end3 = 2011
| constituency3 = Mararikulam
| predecessor3 = P. J. Francis
| successor3 = Constituency abolished

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|26 September 1952}}
| birth_place = [[Kodungallur]], [[Travancore–Cochin]], India{{efn|Present-day: [[Kottapuram]], Kodungallur, [[Kerala]], India}}
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| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]]
| otherparty = [[Students' Federation of India]]
| spouse = Nata Duvvury ({{abbr|div.|Divorced}} 1996)
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| children = 2
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* [[University of Kerala]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]])}}
* [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] {{small|([[Master of Philosophy|MPhil]])}}
* {{nowrap|[[Centre for Development Studies]] {{small|([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}}}
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'''Thomas Isaac''' (born 26 September 1952) is an Indian politician and economist, who served as the [[Department of Finance (Kerala)|Minister for Finance and Coir]] of the Indian state of [[Kerala]] and a central committee member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].

He represented the [[Alappuzha (State Assembly constituency)|Alappuzha constituency]] in the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]. During his tenure as a member of the [[Kerala State Planning Board]], he was in charge of the [[Peoples Planning in Kerala]]. He also served as the Finance Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011 and 2016 to 2021.

==Biography==
The son of T. P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, Isaac obtained a PhD from the [[Centre for Development Studies]].<ref>CDS Doctoral Studies 1975-2012. http://cds.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Thesis-List_-Jan2013.pdf</ref> His PhD thesis is titled ''Class Struggle and Industrial Structure: A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala 1859 - 1980''.<ref>CDS Doctoral Studies 1975-2012. http://cds.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Thesis-List_-Jan2013.pdf</ref> While a student, he became involved in student politics, being involved with the [[Students Federation of India]] (SFI), an organisation which is politically linked with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He has held posts in the SFI at college, district and state level.

Isaac was a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, [[Thiruvananthapuram]] and has published a number of articles and books.<ref>Isaac, T.M. Thomas. "Curriculum Vitae". ''Centro de Estudos Sociais''. Retrieved 15 March 2009. http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/emancipa/cv/gen/isaac.html</ref>

Isaac is divorced from his wife Dr. Nata Duvvury<ref>Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac's daughter Sarah to get married in New York. Retrieved 05 March 2017. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-finance-minister-thomas-isaacs-daughter-sarah-get-married-new-york-689479</ref> who is currently a senior lecturer at [[National University of Ireland, Galway]], [[Ireland]].<ref>People. Retrieved 05 March 2017. http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/political-science-and-sociology/nataduvvury/</ref> They have two daughters: Sara Duvisac, and Dora Duvisac.<ref>Shri. Dr. T. M. Thomas Isaac. Retrieved 05 March 2017. https://kerala.gov.in/dr-t-m-thomas-isaac</ref>

==Works==
===English===
# ''Science for Social Revolution: The Experience of Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad'' With B. Ekbal (1989)
# ''Democracy at work in an Indian industrial cooperative: the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi'' With Richard W. Franke and Pyaralal Raghavan. Ithaca: [[Cornell University Press]]. 1998
# ''Kalliasseri experiment in local level planning'' With P. V. Unnikrishnan, T. Gangadharan, Sreekumar Chathopadhya, Lalitha Bhai Sathyan, and Ajay Kumar Varma. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies. Monograph Series: Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development.1995
# ''Modernisation and employment: the coir industry in Kerala''. With R. A. Van Stuijvenberg and K. N. Nair. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 10. New Delhi: [[Sage Publications]]. 1992
#''Local Democracy and Development: People's campaign for decentralised planning in Kerala'' with Richard W. Franke. New Delhi: [[LeftWord Books]]. 2000
#''Building Alternatives: The Story of India's Oldest Construction Workers' Cooperative'' with Michelle Williams. New Delhi: [[LeftWord Books]]. 2017.

===Malayalam===
# ''The Withering Coconut'' (1985)
# ''Political Economy of Poverty'' (1985)
# ''Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World'' (1987)
# ''ABC of Political Economy'' (1987)
# ''The World Bank and IMF'' (1988)
# ''Kerala: Land and Man'' (1988) [Won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 1989]
# ''Political Economy of Surrender'' (1992)
# ''Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice'' (1998)
# ''Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers'' (1998)
# ''Construction of False Consent : Critique of Malayalam Media 2000 - 2010'' (with N. P. Chandrasekharan)

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