Darinee Alagirisamy

Articles & Chapters

Book Chapters

Book chapter examining the transnational impact of EVR Periyar’s Self-Respect Movement and his visits to the region in 1929 and 1954.

Read more Darinee Alagirisamy, “Periyar in Singapore: Transnationalism and Decolonisation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Periyar, eds. A.R. Venkatachalapathy & Karthick Ram Manoharan (Cambridge University Press,2025).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Journal article that explores how politics shaped – and was in turn shaped by – consumption cultures and ecological management.

Read more Darinee Alagirisamy, “The Problem with Neera: The (Un)Making of a National Drink in Late Colonial India,” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 56:1 (2019).

With technology, bottled neera is a reality now. Source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=neera&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image

Journal article examining the politics of working-class drinking in colonial Singapore through the lens of race, class, and colonial governmentality.

Read more Darinee Alagirisamy, “Toddy, Race, and Urban Space in Colonial Singapore,  1900-1959,” Modern Asian Studies 53:5 (2019), pp. 1675-1699.

A bottle and glass of toddy Source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toddy_Bottle_and_Glass.jpg

Journal article tracing the transnational networks that enabled and were in turn strengthened by EVR Periyar’s first visit to British Malaya in the interwar period.

Read more Darinee Alagirisamy, “The Self-Respect Movement and Tamil Politics of Belonging in Interwar British Malaya, 1929-1939,” Modern Asian Studies 50:5 (2016), 1547-1575.