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This event is in partnership with the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI),South Asia Center, the Department of History, and the Department of South Asia Studies. 

Ambedkar in America is an exploration of the relationship between archive, imagination, and figurations of B. R. Ambedkar in his time and ours. Taking up the specific problem of the relationship between space and thought, and interwar thought about "the social," in particular, this seminar will consider forms of refusal and practices of insurgence that define and distinguish Dalit thought as a genre of political thought bound together by a set of thematic preoccupations including: the historicity of caste, the operation of Brahminism, caste poverty, and the itineraries of Dalit emancipation. Professor Rao will structure her presentation as an exploration of Dalit thinking as it unfolds at the intersection of the word and the world, the city (New York) and the University (Columbia) in order to consider the relationship between disciplinary formation, emergent social analytics, and (social) life. 

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