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Dr Pavel Hons

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Postdoc researcher

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Charles University, Prague

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Pavel Hons graduated from Charles University in Prague where he also obtained his PhD (2010). Since 2008 he has been a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He also teaches at Charles University (since 2007). He works as an editor of the international peer reviewed journal Archiv orientální. He has an interest in Tamil language, Tamil literature and Indian society. Recently he has been involved in research on Dalits and Dalit literature, particularly emancipation strategies of Dalits in Tamil Nadu.

Publications (selected works)

Books

  • Kasta, a basta! Pohledy na kastovní systém, tentokrát převážně zdola [Caste and that´s that! Views of the caste system, this time mostly from below]. Praha: Academia 2019. ISBN: 978-80-200-2979-9.
  • Když němí promluví... Antologie hindské a tamilské dalitské literatury. [When the dumb speak… Anthology of Hindi and Tamil Dalit Literature]. (Together with D. Marková, eds.), Pavel Mervart 2012. ISBN 978-80-7465-013-0.
    Auxiliarity in Tamil (with special reference to iru, viTu and koLLu). Studia Orientalia Pragensia. Prague: The Karolinum Press, 2006, ISBN 80-246-1057-4. 

Novels translated from Tamil

  • Perumal Murugan: Napůl žena [Mathorubagan; One part woman]. Praha: Verzone 2019, ISBN 978-80-87971-33-8

 Articles

  • “Annihilation of Caste or Its Reinforcement? Emancipation Strategies of Tamil Dalits.” Studia Orientalia Slovaca Vol. 19 no. 1 (2020): 87-120.
  • “Are we Hindus? Religion in contemporary Tamil Dalit discourse.” Argument. Biannual Philosophical Journal Vol. 8 no. 2 (2018): 273-288.
  • “Tamil Dalit Art and Identity: What to do with the drum?” South Asia Research 38, no. 2 (2018): 1-16.
  • “Resistance through nature. Natural motifs in Tamil Dalit literature.” Pandanus 9, no. 1 (2015): 71-88.
  • “Attitude towards Nature in Selected Works of Contemporary Tamil Writers.” Pandanus ´13. Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual 7, no. 2 (2013): 65-76.
  • “Literature - a Way of Strengthening Dalit Identity.” CEENIS Current Research Series. Vol. 1 (2013): 193-201.
  • “Phonetic reduplication in Tamil in the Context of Expressivity.” Archiv orientální 76, no. 4 (2008): 491-507.
  • “Types of Semantic Reduplication in Tamil.” Archiv orientální 75 (2007): 411-424.