Friends and Colleagues

Please join us for the following lecture sponsored by the Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies: Mridu Rai, "Geographies of Justice: Caste and Violence in Bihar"

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Cabot 206

Mridu Rai is an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. She was educated at Delhi University; the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Columbia University, where she received a PhD in modern south Asian history. Her doctoral research focused on the problem of religion and politics in the making of protest in modern Kashmir between the 1840s and the 1940s. In 2004 it culminated in her book, Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir. Rai's new research turns to the region of Bihar, to explore the relationships between caste, territory, region and nation as they evolved from the period of British colonial rule into the postcolonial era.

Co-sponsor: Tufts History Department
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Contact: Lata Parwani, Lata.Parwani@tufts.edu, 617.627.3558
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