Anupama Rao
Historian and professor at Columbia University who studies colonialism, gender, and caste politics and is the author of The Caste Question and other works on Dalit history and modernity.
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Feb 1, 2026 • 59min
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao, historian at Columbia who studies colonialism, gender, and caste politics. Suraj Yengde, scholar, public intellectual, and anti-caste activist. They explore how caste is defined as a power-based social order. They compare caste and race globally. They trace historical turns, discuss Ambedkar’s Buddhist rupture, lived Dalit imaginaries, and why Wilkerson’s book struck a chord.
Feb 1, 2026 • 59min
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao, Columbia history professor who studies colonialism, gender, and caste, and Suraj Yengde, scholar and anti-caste activist and author, map the contours of caste. They unpack defining caste as embodied social relations. They debate comparing caste and race. They trace historical formations, endogamy and violence, and the politics of caste privilege.
