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Navayana-Sarai Lecture # 3

 

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 Colonialism/ (Duke University Press, 
2006), as well as /Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian 
Feminism/ (Kali for Women, 2003), and the author of numerous articles, 
including "Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition," 
/Subaltern Studies XII/ (Permanent Black, 2005).


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