Скачать или смотреть Anti-Caste Thought Panel 5: Anti-Caste Thinkers

A two-day online conference “Anti-Caste Thought: Theory, Politics and Culture” was organized at the University of Wolverhampton by Prof. Meena Dhanda and Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan on 29th and 30th October 2021 as a part of the EU Horizon 2020 project Freedom From Caste: The Political Thought of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy in a Global Context.

Chair: Dag Erik Berg (Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Molde University College, Norway)

• Mahitosh Mandal (Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, Presidency University, India) – Dalit Resistance in Times of Bengal Renaissance: Five Untouchable Thinker-Reformers from Colonial Bengal

• Vignesh Karthik KR (PhD student at the King’s India Institute, KCL, UK) and Vishal Vasanthakumar (Independent Scholar, India) – Beyond Anti-Caste Activism: A Periyarist Gaze at Social Justice

• Prem Ram MR (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Crescent School of Law, India) – A discourse on communication between Iyothee Thass and Periyar: Possibilities of transgressing Caste equations

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 895514.

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