Shibi Laxman Kumaraperumal

Shibi Laxman Kumaraperumal is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto. His Dissertation studies the encounter between Tamil Pandits, colonial philology, and European scholarship of language from 1700 to 1900 and its impact on the Tamil language and cultural history. By focusing on Colonial Philology, his research provides new insights into the history of Orientalist and modern linguistic identities in South Asia. His research interests include missionaries, translation studies, early modernity debates, Empire studies, Digital Humanities, and cultural and intellectual histories.