Bhuvani K
M.Sc Biochemistry PSG college of Arts and SciencePh.D. Scholar
Bhuvani K
M.Sc Biochemistry PSG college of Arts and ScienceMy primary research interest is in reconstructing the conceptual frameworks underlying premodern Indian culture, especially through Tamil literature. I approach literature not merely as text but as a living archive of how cultures learn and act. My work explores “culture as a learnable,” drawing from the Philosophy of culture to understand how patterned action underlie social interactions. Using Tamil textual traditions as a starting point, I attempt to recover the predicate and concept networks embedded in language.
Bhuvani K is a Project Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Indian Languages (CSIL), Chanakya University. Her work explores the intersections of Indian literature, Caste interactions in India and Philosophy of culture, with a focus on reconstructing key concepts that shaped premodern Indian social interactions. Drawing particularly from Tamil literary traditions, she studies how language encodes cultural learning — treating literature as a repository of action, meaning, and social knowledge.
Before joining Chanakya University, Bhuvani trained and mentored aspirants for the Civil Services Examination and has been a UPSC coach from 2019 to 2024, having herself reached the interview stage of the examination. Her current research engages with the idea of “culture as a learnable”, recovering the predicate and concept networks embedded in Indian texts to understand how social categories such as caste, order, and relations were constituted.
- M.Sc., Biochemistry, PSG college of Arts and Science
Caste Narratives in Tamil literature – upcoming project under Centre for the Study of Indian languages.