Roland Lardinois, a sociologist and an emeritus research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS, honored us with a resourceful lecture at the CSH seminar on Monday, 23 October 2023. The event consisted of a 40 minutes presentation followed by a discussion with Satish Deshpande (Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bengaluru) and a Q/Ans. session with numerous researchers.

The recording of this session, entitled “Is caste a relevant comparative concept?” is available at: https://youtu.be/4-y1H63RC1U