Editing Iyothee Thass (section)

== Secondary Literature in English ==
* Leonard, Dickens (2025). "Iyothee Thassar's Buddha and Civilizational Memory". In: Banerjee, Prathama (Ed.), ''Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History'': 113–127. Bloomsbury Academic. {{annotation|Reads ''Indirar Desa Sarithiram'', cited directly, as an account of a civilizational conflict between indigenous Buddhists and "Aryan" invaders, and notes Thass's reliance on the Orientalist theory of Indo-Aryan migration.}}
* Ober, Douglas (2023). ''Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India''. Stanford University Press. {{annotation|Places Thass's Madras movement within a wider network of Buddhist revival in India before Ambedkar, and gives the Tamil movement's relations with the Maha Bodhi Society and Narasu.}}
* Ayyathurai, Gajendran (2020). "Living Buddhism: Migration, Memory, and Castelessness in South India". ''History and Anthropology'' (online first, 14 December 2020): 1–19. {{annotation|An ethnographic study of the Buddhist community of Hubli, which descends from Tamil railway migrants and keeps Thass's ''Adivedam'' as a core text. Its claim that the community is casteless is the community's own account, which the author defends.}}
* Leonard, Dickens (2021). "Caste-Less Tamils and Early Print Public Sphere: Remembering Iyothee Thass (1845–1914)". ''South Asia Research'' 41.3: 349–368. {{annotation|A short account of Thass's career, his press, and his ideas. Most of its quotations of Thass are the author's own translations from a secondary source (Ponnovium 1999), and should be checked against Thass's own texts.}}
* Ayyathurai, Gajendran (2011). ''Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India''. PhD dissertation, Columbia University. {{annotation|The most detailed English study of the arguments that Thass published in the ''Tamilan'', including his critique of the Congress and the swadeshi movement, the 1911 census campaign, and the Sakya associations. All translations are the author's, and the study finds no direct archival evidence of an influence on Ambedkar.}}
* Aloysius, G. (2010). ''Dalit-Subaltern Self-Identifications: Iyothee Thassar & Tamizhan''. Critical Quest. {{annotation|An essay by the editor of Thass's collected writings on his journalism and on his rejection of the labels "Paraiah", "Panchama", and "Hindu". It is the clearest English statement of Aloysius's interpretation, and should be read as an argument and not as a neutral summary.}}
* Aloysius, G. (1998). ''Religion as Emancipatory Identity: A Buddhist Movement among the Tamils under Colonialism''. New Age International. {{annotation|The standard monograph on the Sakya Buddhist Society and the South Indian Buddhist Association, with a chronology, conference resolutions, and appendices of petitions and appeals. Its thesis that Tamil Buddhism was the ideological antecedent of the Dravidian movement is the author's argument.}}
* Geetha, V., & S.V. Rajadurai (1998). ''Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar''. Samya. {{annotation|A history of non-Brahmin thought in Tamil Nadu that begins with Thass and is critical of the empirical basis of his history. Chapter 3 is the main discussion of Thass; page numbers restart in each chapter of the electronic copy.}}