MFIS Workshops
Studying Indian Caste System
About the Workshop
- Examine the fundamental properties of the caste system in India.
- Learn to read texts about the caste system carefully in order to ask logical questions.
- Allow students to explore their own experience in order to search for knowledge about their country.
- Honing reading skills and understanding logical connections proposed in a text.
- Learning about key areas of caste studies.
- Learning to think about our everyday experiences as serious building blocks towards knowledge
Workshop Highlights
An Interactive Exploration on the nature of Caste System in India. The workshop aims to provide an introduction to study caste with a unique perspective.
Course Mode
Offline
Duration
1 Days
Language
Hindi, EnglishWorkshop Contents
Workshop will have following sessions
Introduction to the Caste System
This Session will engage into preliminary questions about the nature of Caste System in India
Making Sense on the Caste "System"
This session will pose some critical questions on the nature of scholarship on Caste so far and study of this "System"
How to Read the Text?
The Session will practically engage with the participants on reading crucial texts and making sense of it.
About Workshop-Instructor
Dr. Sufiya Pathan
Dr Pathan is Associate Professor, Presidency University, Bangalore
Her areas of research are Communalism, Caste Studies, Colonialism, Translation and Indian History. Research commitments are shaped by the research programme ‘Comparative Science of Cultures’. Has coordinated international research projects: 2017-2020 Erasmus+ Jean Monnet module: Teaching and research grant on the topic ‘India-Europe Relations and Diversity Management’