P. C. Saidalavi
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, and author of Seeking Allah's Hierarchy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), which is based on his ethnographic research on Muslim barbers and social hierarchy in Kerala.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 50min
P. C. Saidalavi, "Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labor, and Islam in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
P. C. Saidalavi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University, explores Muslim barbers in Kerala and how Islamic values shape intra-communal hierarchy. He discusses fieldwork origins, ethical listening, competing lineage claims, patronage and labor relations, jurisprudential labels that justify humiliation, and how unionization and migration reshaped dignity and status.
