CSH is pleased to announce that Rama Devi, a researcher at CSH Delhi, will be releasing a new monograph titled Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalit Lives in an Urban Neighborhood. The book is set to be published in May 2025.

About the book: The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life. The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness.