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{{Short description|Social scientist who studied South Indian politics and culture}}
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| birth_name = Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1958|12|16}}
| birth_place = [[Marthandam]],<br/>[[Kanniyakumari District]],<br/>[[Madras State]]<br/>(now [[Tamil Nadu]]), India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2014|11|10|1958|12|16}}
| death_place = New Delhi, NCT of Delhi, India
| occupation = Social Scientist, Academician
| nationality = Indian
| alma_mater = [[Madras University]], [[Scott Christian College]]
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| notableworks = ''The Image Trap(1992)'' ''Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present(2007/2008)''
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'''Mathias Samuel Soundra Pandian'''<ref name="NIE">{{cite web| url = http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Noted-Scholar-MSS-Pandian-Passes-Away/2014/11/11/article2517874.ece| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141111072131/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Noted-Scholar-MSS-Pandian-Passes-Away/2014/11/11/article2517874.ece| url-status = dead| archive-date = 11 November 2014| title = Noted Scholar MSS Pandian Passes Away- The New Indian Express}}</ref> (16 December 1958 – 10 November 2014) was an eminent social scientist whose area of research covered the [[Dravidian Movement]], South Indian politics, cinema, caste, identity and several other socially relevant issues. Pandian joined the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU), Delhi as a professor in 2009.<ref name="NIE"/> At the time of his death, he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies where he offered courses on 'Region, Language and the Politics of Nation Making' and 'Caste, Culture and Communication: An Alternative Intellectual History of Modern India'.<ref name= "CV">{{Cite web| title=MSS Pandian | url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/msspandian/cv.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127134108/http://www.jnu.ac.in:80/Faculty/msspandian/cv.pdf | archive-date=2014-11-27}}</ref>

He died on 10 November 2014, in Delhi following a cardiac arrest.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/social-scientist-pandian-dead/article6584300.ece| title = Social scientist Pandian dead – The Hindu| website = The Hindu| date = 10 November 2014}}</ref>

== Education and academic career ==

Pandian was a native of Marthandam, a town in Kanyakumari district.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/mss-pandian-laid-to-rest-in-marthandam/article6597299.ece| title = M.S.S. Pandian laid to rest in Marthandam – TAMIL NADU – The Hindu| website = The Hindu| date = 13 November 2014}}</ref> Pandian completed his B.A. in economics from [[Scott Christian College]], Nagercoil in 1978. He then shifted to Chennai to pursue his post graduation in Economics from The [[Madras Christian College]] (MCC). He completed the degree in 1980. He finished his Ph.D. from Madras University in 1987. He worked at the [[Madras Institute of Development Studies]] (MIDS), Madras as an associate professor from 1989 to 2001. He had taught briefly as an Adjunct Faculty at the [[Asian College of Journalism]] (ACJ) in Chennai.<ref name="NDTV">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/noted-scholar-mss-pandian-dies-at-57-691560|title = Noted Scholar MSS Pandian Dies at 57}}</ref> He was the Honorary Visiting Fellow, Sarai Programme at the [[Centre for the Study of Developing Societies]] (CSDS), Delhi during the period of 2002–2009. Pandian joined the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], Delhi in 2009 and continued in the post till his untimely death in 2014.

Pandian has been the Rama Wattamul Distinguished Indian Scholar at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu in 2008. the other posts he held include: visiting fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies at the Cambridge University in 2004; visiting professor in human sciences at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 2002.<ref>M. S. S. Pandian (2015) ''The Image Trap''. SAGE Publications. {{ISBN|978-93-515-0066-7}}(HB). p. 162</ref>

==Published works==

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! Title
! Year of Publishing
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!1
|''[[Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present]]'' || 2007/2008
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! 2
|''[[The Image Trap: M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,]]'' || 1992
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! 3
|''[[Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Nanchilnadu, 1880-1939]]'' || 1990
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M.S.S. Pandian has also co-edited '''''Muslims, Dalits and Fabrications of History: Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 12''''' (2005)

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/mss-pandian-laid-to-rest-in-marthandam/article6597299.ece M.S.S. Pandian laid to rest in Marthandam]
* [http://www.sagepub.in/authorDetails.nav?contribId=523058 M. S. S. Pandian- Late of Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi]

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[[Category:1958 births]]
[[Category:2014 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian social scientists]]
[[Category:Scientists from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:People from Kanyakumari district]]

M. S. S. Pandian - Revision history

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