Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste – more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade unions, and the field of Literature. Juned Shaikh is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.
Date/Time
November 5, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public
Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz