Caste, Hinduism and Census in Colonial India
Lecture by Professor Padmanabh Samarendra (Dr K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi).
Professor Samarendra's research focuses on the concept of caste and caste movements in modern India, colonialism, nationalism, communalism and more. He is currently completing a monograph on caste.
The lecture, in English, will interrogate how the colonial census shaped the links between caste and Hinduism.