THE FIFTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDIAN SOCIOLOGY

Caste Lasts: The Anatomy of a Resilient Hegemony
 

This lecture offers conceptual revisitation of the topic of caste, under the rubric of "resilient hegemonies" i.e. systems of coercion and humiliation which resist efforts to subvert, reform or exit them for significant periods of time. 
Speaker: Prof. Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and Visiting Professor of Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin
Chair: Prof. Rita Brara, Editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

(Collaboration: Contributions to Indian Sociology; Institute of Economic Growth)