[Reader-list] TODAY: Anupama Rao at Sarai-CSDS, 3.30 p.m., 12 Jan

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Mon Jan 12 08:47:40 IST 2009


NAVAYANA
invites you to Navayana-Sarai lecture # 3

Anupama Rao

will speak on

Theorizing Caste Violence in Postcolonial India
Thoughts from Maharashtra

3:30 pm, 12 January 2009
Seminar Room, CSDS

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 (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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