Drawing on ethnographic research, this talk will touch on how some of the Dalit villages located a short distance from the Mahabodhi Temple encapsulate the diverse expressions, meanings and contradictions of Indian Buddhism in the early twenty-first century.
This talk is with Heba Ahmed, an emerging scholar whose work addresses the violence against Muslims in the state of Gujarat in 2002 (and in particular efforts to commemorate the violence).
Disputed Pasts, Violent Present: Examining Anti-Muslim Discourses in Contemporary India