Hugo Gorringe Editor & Author

Suryakant Waghmore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has previously taught at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. He is the author of Civility against Caste (2013) and occasionally contributes columns in Scroll.in, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Outlook, India Today and The Wire.

Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the Co-Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His research focuses on the interplay between caste, politics and Dalit movements in Tamil Nadu. He is the author of Untouchable Citizens (2005) and Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters on identity, violence, space, caste and politics.