{"id":1051,"date":"2025-02-07T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:04:38","slug":"jesus-f-chairez-garza-rethinking-untouchability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2025\/02\/07\/jesus-f-chairez-garza-rethinking-untouchability\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas F. Ch\u00e1irez-Garza, ‘Rethinking Untouchability’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is pleased to celebrate the publication of Jes\u00fas F. Ch\u00e1irez-Garza’s\u00a0Rethinking Untouchability: The Political Thought of B.R. Ambedkar\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(MUP, 2024). Centred on the Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), the book examines the transformation of ‘untouchability’ into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Dr Ch\u00e1irez-Garza will be joined in a panel discussion by Dr. Nivi Manchanda (QMUL), Dr. Jayaseelan Raj (KCL) and Dr. Srilata Sircar (KCL). All are welcome, but please do register your attendance at tinyurl.com\/QMJesus<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This event is co-sponsored by the\u00a0Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at QMUL<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jes\u00fas F. Ch\u00e1irez-Garza\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n

Nivi Manchanda\u00a0<\/strong>is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n

Jayaseelan Raj\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at King’s College London.<\/p>\n

Srilata Sircar\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Lecturer in Critical Geography at King’s College London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is pleased to celebrate the publication of Jes\u00fas F. Ch\u00e1irez-Garza’s\u00a0Rethinking Untouchability: The Political Thought of B.R. Ambedkar\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(MUP, 2024). Centred on the Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), the book examines the transformation of ‘untouchability’ into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Dr Ch\u00e1irez-Garza will be joined in a panel discussion by Dr. Nivi Manchanda (QMUL), Dr. Jayaseelan Raj (KCL) and Dr. Srilata Sircar (KCL).\u00a0This event is co-sponsored by the\u00a0Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at QMUL<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}