Anupama Rao

Anupama Rao is Associate Professor, History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is currently completing a book on the political thought of B. R. Ambedkar, tentatively titled “Ambedkar in His Time and Ours,” and working on “Dalit Bombay,” a book about the relationship between political culture and everyday life in twentieth century Bombay. She is Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Writing on Public Books

Essays

To Be “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Star Dust”: A Suicide Note from the University of Hyderabad

In India, like elsewhere, the university is a place of upward mobility. It is also the tense meeting ground of social difference; of young people across caste, gender, religious, and sexual identities who encounter each other in the space of the classroom, where the divide between urban and rural, between English and the regional languages, […]