[Reader-list] (14 Jan) A Talk on 'The Biopolitics of Caste' by Anupama Rao @ CWDS, Delhi

[anoop kumar]

Centre for Women's Development Studies



Invites you for a Talk on

The Biopolitics of Caste

* by*

* Dr. Anupama Rao*

(Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University)

* *

 Date and Time:   *January 14, 2009,  3.00 P.M.*

  Venue             :  Seminar Hall, Centre for Women's Development Studies



(*About the Speaker*: 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'* (Kali for Women, 2003, *and
the
author of numerous publications, including '*Death of a Kotwal: Injury and
the Politics of Recognition*', Subaltern Studies XII*). *



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-- 
" The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class
using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be
thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing
their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the
former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we
believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional
qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human
beings."

- Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927