Talk@Sarai
Theorizing Caste Violence in Postcolonial India: Thoughts from Maharashtra
by Anupama Rao
Date: 12th January 2009
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 3:30 pm

This talk takes up the relationship between symbolic politics and political violence as they have influenced changing repertoires of caste violence and Dalit politics in Maharashtra, from the namantar struggle of the 1970s to the present.

Anupama Rao is trained as an anthropologist and historian, and teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The Caste Question: Dalits and Politics in Modern India (University of California Press, forthcoming); contributing editor of Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality and Colonialis (Duke Uniersity Press, 2006), as well as Gender and Caste (Kali for Women, 2003), and the author of numerous publications, including "Death of a Kotwal: Injury and
the Politics of Recognition," Subaltern Studies XII.