[Invited Lecture Series] PLANTATION CRISIS: RUPTURES OF DALIT LIFE IN INDIA
What does the collapse of India’s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who
have lived, worked, and died on the plantations since the colonial
era? This talk is based on Raj’s recent book Plantation Crisis (UCL Press,
2022).
PLANTATION CRISIS: RUPTURES OF DALIT LIFE IN INDIA
Dr. Jayaseelan Raj
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development
King’s College, London SYNOPSIS
14 June 2024 | 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm IST
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INCAA Invited Lecture Series 2024-25
Dr Jayaseelan Raj is a senior lecturer in Anthropology and International Development. Before joining King's, he was a professor at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen, Germany. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Centre for Development Studies, India and a postdoctoral research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Fellow in the GRNPP project at the Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway. He is also associated with the Egalitarianism Project based in Bergen Anthropology.
He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship to write a book on Dalits and State in Kerala. What does the collapse of India’s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked, and died on the plantations since the colonial era? This talk is based on Raj’s recent book Plantation Crisis (UCL Press, 2022). The book presents a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture.
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Peermade and Munnar tea belts of Kerala, the book offers a unique and richly detailed analysis of the profound, multi-dimensional sense of crisis experienced by those who are at the bottom of global plantation capitalism and caste hierarchy.
Dr. Jayaseelan Raj
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development
King’s College, London SYNOPSIS
14 June 2024 | 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm IST