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Sharika Thiranagama

Sharika Thiranagama is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka. She is now working on forms of emancipation among Dalit (formerly untouchable caste) agricultural laborers in Southern India. icon

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