Lecture on “Chatur baniya: The (ir)relevance of caste and civility in 21st century India” by Dr Suryakant Waghmore, IIT-B
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Lecture on “Chatur baniya: The (ir)relevance of caste and civility in 21st century India” by Dr Suryakant Waghmore, IIT-B
July 15, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Lecture on
“Chatur baniya: The (ir)relevance of caste and civility in 21st century India”
by Dr Suryakant Waghmore, IIT-B
Saturday | 15th July 2017 | 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Organised by The International Centre Goa
Entry Free & Open to All
Dr Suryakant Waghmore (PhD Edinburgh) is an associate professor of sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Indian Institute of Technology-Powai (IIT-B). He taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, for over 10 years where he also served as Chairperson, Centre for Social Justice and Governance. Dr Waghmore has held visiting affiliations at the Centre for South Asia, Stanford University; School of Humanities, Hyderabad Central University; and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Univeristy of Göttingen.
He is the author of Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India, Sage (2013) and co-editor (with Hugo Goringe and Roger Jeffery) of From the Margins to the Mainstream: Institutionalising Minorities in South Asia, Sage (2015).
