Gajendran Ayyathurai is an anthropologist and a historian from Göttingen, Germany. Before Göttingen University, Gajendran taught at Columbia University, City University of New York, and William Paterson University, USA. He has published on the culture, memory, and history of the casteless Tamils–Indians in Tamil, English, and German. He has also initiated a unique subject area, Critical Caste Studies, with scholars from India, Europe, and North America.