Caste: A global story

For too long caste has been analysed as a phenomenon restricted to the Indian
subcontinent. Caste: A Global Story offers a compelling challenge to this frame, expanding our understanding of how caste is experienced and resisted in the transnational register. Combining history, ethnography and archival research, Dr Yengde offers a comparative approach to caste and race from historical times to today.

What are the impacts of colonialism, religion and nationalism on caste-based hierarchies worldwide? What can we learn from caste-related movements in India and internationally? Why hasn’t the South Asian diaspora embraced the anti-caste struggles of the homeland? What are the limits of Dalit–Black solidarity? Dr Yengde asks probing questions about the nature of inequality and calls for a cosmopolitan Dalit universalism as part of a fight for social justice and equality.

Speaker: Dr Suraj Milind Yengde.

Chair: Professor Gurminder K Bhambra.

Discussants: Dr Kiruba Munusamy and Mr Abhishek Bhosale.