T. M. Thomas Isaac

Doctor T. M. Thomas Isaac MLA
ടി എം തോമസ് ഐസക്
Minister for Finance and Coir, Kerala
In office 25 May 2016 – 3 May 2021
Preceded by	K. M. Mani[a] Adoor Prakash[b]
Succeeded by	K. N. Balagopal
Minister of Finance, Kerala
In office 18 May 2006 – 16 May 2011
Preceded by	K. Sankaranarayanan
Succeeded by	K. M. Mani
Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
In office 23 May 2011 – 3 May 2021
Preceded by	A. A. Shukoor
Succeeded by	P. P. Chitharanjan
Constituency	Alappuzha
In office 16 May 2001 – 2011
Preceded by	P. J. Francis
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Mararikulam
Personal details
Born	(1952-09-26) September 26, 1952 (age 68) Kodungallur, Travancore–Cochin, India[c]
Nationality	Indian
Political party	CPI (M)
Other political affiliations	Students' Federation of India
Spouse(s)	Nata Duvvury (div. 1996)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Kerala (BA, MA) Jawaharlal Nehru University (MPhil) Centre for Development Studies (PhD)

Thomas Isaac (born 26 September 1952) is an Indian politician and economist, who served as the Minister for Finance and Coir of the Indian state of Kerala and a central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

He represented the Alappuzha constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. During his tenure as a member of the Kerala State Planning Board, he was in charge of the Peoples Planning in Kerala. He also served as the Finance Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011 and 2016 to 2021.

Biography[]

The son of T. P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, Isaac obtained a PhD from the Centre for Development Studies.^[1] His PhD thesis is titled Class Struggle and Industrial Structure: A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala 1859 - 1980.^[2] While a student, he became involved in student politics, being involved with the Students Federation of India (SFI), an organisation which is politically linked with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He has held posts in the SFI at college, district and state level.

Isaac was a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and has published a number of articles and books.^[3]

Isaac is divorced from his wife Dr. Nata Duvvury^[4] who is currently a senior lecturer at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.^[5] They have two daughters: Sara Duvisac, and Dora Duvisac.^[6]

Works[]

English[]

1. Science for Social Revolution: The Experience of Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishad With B. Ekbal (1989)
2. Democracy at work in an Indian industrial cooperative: the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi With Richard W. Franke and Pyaralal Raghavan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998
3. Kalliasseri experiment in local level planning With P. V. Unnikrishnan, T. Gangadharan, Sreekumar Chathopadhya, Lalitha Bhai Sathyan, and Ajay Kumar Varma. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies. Monograph Series: Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development.1995
4. Modernisation and employment: the coir industry in Kerala. With R. A. Van Stuijvenberg and K. N. Nair. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 10. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1992
5. Local Democracy and Development: People's campaign for decentralised planning in Kerala with Richard W. Franke. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2000
6. Building Alternatives: The Story of India's Oldest Construction Workers' Cooperative with Michelle Williams. New Delhi: LeftWord Books. 2017.

Malayalam[]

1. The Withering Coconut (1985)
2. Political Economy of Poverty (1985)
3. Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World (1987)
4. ABC of Political Economy (1987)
5. The World Bank and IMF (1988)
6. Kerala: Land and Man (1988) [Won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 1989]
7. Political Economy of Surrender (1992)
8. Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice (1998)
9. Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers (1998)
10. Construction of False Consent : Critique of Malayalam Media 2000 - 2010 (with N. P. Chandrasekharan)

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