Caste in Everyday Life - Experience and Affect in Indian Society

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations. Considering Guru and Sarukkai's path-breaking work on 'Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social' (2019), this volume applies the insights of the theories to multiple settings, issues and communities. Unique to this volume, Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences are considered, rather than simply focusing on the lives of oppressed castes (Dalits). Analysis of cross-caste friendships or romances and marriages, furthermore, brings out the intimate and ingrained aspects of caste. Taken together, therefore, the contributions in this volume offer rich insights into caste and its consciousness within the framework of everyday experiences. 


Dhaneswar Bhoi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including 'Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India', Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).
Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer & former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).