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CRASSH | Majoritarianism and the politics of marginalisation

An event by the Caste as Practice: Persistence and Transformations research network. Speakers: Susan Bayly (University of Cambridge) Manali Desai (University of Cambridge) Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po, King’s College London) About the event: In this panel our speakers will discuss the trend of majoritarian nationalism in India and the shifting nature of caste politics in this context. About the speakers: Susan Bayly is Professor Emerita of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of several books including Caste, Society and Politics in India from the 18th Century to the Current Age and more recently, Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond. Her new book Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective. Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity  ---  is out with Berghahn in 2024. Manali Desai is Professor of Comparative and Historical Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of State Formation and Radical Democracy in India, 1860-1990 and co-edited States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia and Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society. She has just finished a large research project titled The GendV Project on Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in Delhi and Johannesburg. Christophe Jaffrelot is a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris and Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of several books including Hindu Nationalism: A Reader, India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India and more recently Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India and Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy. https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/4...