Caste and Gender in Contemporary India

Supurna Banerjee is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She completed her PhD in 2014 from the University of Edinburgh in Sociology. Her monograph, based largely on the PhD work,Activism and Agency in India: Nurturing Resistance in Tea Plantations was published in 2017. She has also published in journals such as the International Law Journal, Journal of South Asian Development and in edited collections. She has co-edited a special issue in SAMAJ on ‘Debates on Caste-Gender Intersectionality’. Her primary research interests are gender, work, intersectionality, caste, migration and cities.Nandini Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She obtained her PhD degree in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai in 2008. She has published a monograph,Impaired Bodies Gendered Lives: Everyday Realities of Disabled Womenin 2016. She has edited Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice (2016) and Pratyaha — Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations (co-edited with Prasanta Ray, 2015). Her other publications include ‘Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal’ in Renu Adlakha (ed.), Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (2013) and ‘Sites of Oppression: Dominant Ideologies and Women with Disabilities in India’ in Tom Shakespeare (ed.), The Disability Research Reader: New Voices (2015). She has also co-authored a chapter entitled ‘Girls with Disabilities in India: Living Contradictions of Care and Negation’ published in the India Social Development Report entitled Disability Rights Perspectives (2016). Her areas of interest are qualitative research methodology, sociology of gender, marginalisation and social exclusion and social movements.

• Introduction: Interrogating Intersections, Understanding Identities. 1. Thinking about Caste: An Autobiographical Journey 2. Negotiating with Patriarchy and Access to Higher Education 3. Kaarigars, Karkhanas and the Art of Embroidery 4. Negotiating Gender: Caste and Disability Identities of Women in India 5. Caste Identity and Community Feast among Yadavs: An Interpretation 6. The Hindutva Politics of Uma Bharati: Challenges to Women’s Movements 7. Nationalism of Exclusion: Gaumata and her Unholy Sons 8. ‘Chandalini-r Bibriti’: Interrogating Caste and Gender in Contemporary Bengali Dalit Literature 9. Bama’s ‘Karukku’: A Beaded String of Gender, Caste, Religion 10. Caste-Gender Intersectionalities and the Curious Case of Child Nutrition: A Methodological Exposition.