Confronting Caste | Podcast | Ep-5 | Dravidian Movement, Elections and Politics of Tamil Nadu

Описание: In this episode of Confronting Caste, Vignesh Rajahmani unpacks the 2021 state assembly elections of Tamil Nadu in the context of the history of the Dravidian Movement, and the Dravidian-Tamil identity.

Articles on the 2021 election results
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Speaker
Dr Vignesh Rajahmani is a former PhD student at the King’s India Institute. His research has been across disciplines of political science, sociology, and business studies, with professional experience in public policy, legislative research and political consulting of over 5 years.
He has consulted for India’s leading opposition party, the Indian National Congress and provided research support for state assembly elections in 2017 and 2018.
For the 2019 Indian general elections he worked in the election manifesto committee, following which he devised the strategy and development blueprints for two regional parties, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Trinamool Congress in three states in the 2021 (Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and 2022 (Goa) state assembly elections in India.

Host
Dr Srilata Sircar is Lecturer in India and Global Affairs at the King's India Institute. Trained as an urban geographer, Srilata received her doctoral degree from Lund University, Sweden in 2017. With a prior background in History and Development Studies, her research interests include urban political ecology of South Asia, the politics of caste in infrastructure-building, and the political economy of subaltern urbanization. Srilata is a contributing writer for Feminism in India. She is also interested in documentary film-making and podcast production.

About the Series
Confronting Caste is a series of conversations hosted by the King’s India Institute at King’s College London, to bring analytical attention to the question of how caste operates in contemporary society.

This means not only studying caste-based discrimination and oppression across trans-national contexts, but also investigating how this relates to other structures and systems.

The Spring 2021 theme, ‘Understanding Race and Caste’, interrogates political and intellectual challenges and possibilities of approaching race and caste as overlapping, intersecting, and mutually reinforcing fields of power.

Dr Srilata Sircar is the convener and Dr Vignesh Rajahmani (former PhD student) at the King's India Institute.