OPUS Workshop: Axes of inequality in Indian society, their intersections and contradictions with Jonathan Parry; 28 February 2025 [Closed-door]

The workshop with Jonathan Parry will take off from a small handful of his writings illustrative of his three major Indian field research projects: his study of caste and kinship in Kangra (carried out in the 1960s); his study of death in Banaras (carried out in the 1970s and 1980s), and his study of industrial and other manual workers in the central Indian steel town of Bhilai (carried out between 1993 and 2014). Though these ethnographies have raised a considerable array of divergent issue...