Open Borders #5  Kanika Singh and Hafsa Sayeed: Isolated by Caste
Channel: ON PAGE ON STAGE
Date: 21/12/2021

Hafsa Sayeed (doctoral candidate IIT Mumbai Humanities and Social Sciences) and Kanika Singh (doctoral candidate Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) present their research on caste as a framework of social exclusion. A discussion of the methods of literary analysis and fieldwork gives new insights into multiple ways in which caste operates through social exclusion. Hafsa Sayeed talks about her fieldwork among the Kashmiri Sheikhs and Kanika Singh about her analysis of the representation of loneliness in Ajay Navaria's short stories.

Please also visit the DALIT VOICE AND VISION (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe2s1_7J9-XpbsTn8ixRdnQ) digital publication channel which developed from the series of events organised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Research Network ‘Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature’, coordinated by Dr Nicole Thiara and Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak.