The Impure Worlds of Caste Today: Thinking with AoC

<strong>Centre for the Study of Social Systems School of Social Sciences</strong> <strong>CSSS Colloquium</strong> <strong>Dr. Ramesh Bairy </strong> (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai) a paper on <strong>The Impure Worlds of Caste Today: Thinking with AoC</strong> Date : <strong>March 3, 2016 </strong> <strong>Abstract: </strong>This paper is a joyless struggle - personal, ethical and political - and literally a flailing. Being put together in the death of Rohith Vemula and our responses to it, this - still being assembled - paper travels with 'The annihilation of caste' - the speech and the project encoded therein - in order to ask what we do, today, with it. Working with the hunch that there are indeed two projects that Ambedkar outlines in this speech, the paper seeks to stare at the limits and still unexplored possibilities of the same. <strong>Bio: </strong>Ramesh Bairy teaches sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.