His recent work with the philosopher Cornel West has received global attention and calls for unity between African Americans and Dalits. Suraj is a transnational Dalit rights activists involved in building solidarities between Dalit, Black, Roma, Indigenous, Buraku and Refugee peoples in the Fourth World project of marginalized peoples. Suraj’s cover story for the Caravan magazine explores the important question of ‘ Race, Caste and what it will take to make Dalit Lives Matter?’ It is the first extensive treatment of the Dalit-Black question. In addition, he writes a monthly column entitled “Ambedkawaad आंबेडकरवाद ” in Marathi language for Daily Loksatta दैनिक लोकसत्ता. Suraj inaugurated a popular column called ‘Dalitality’ at the Indian Express and is currently the only column in print media to have Dalit centric opinions. Suraj was recently featured on the BBC World Service, and WGBH Boston’s multi-part series on Caste in America sponsored by the Pulitzer Center. Ambedkar Social Justice Award” (Canada, 2019) and the “Rohit Vemula Memorial Scholar Award” (2018). Suraj has been nominated for India’s highest literary award “Sahitya Akademi” and is a recipient of the “Dr.

Currently, he is involved in developing a critical theory of Dalit and Black Studies. Suraj has published over 100 essays, articles, and book reviews in multiple languages in the field of caste, race, ethnicity studies, and labor, migration in the global south. B R Ambedkar with Juggernaut Press, 2022. Suraj’s forthcoming books are: “Caste: A New History of the World” by Allen Lane, 2022, and a biography of Dr. Originally from Nanded, he is an International Human Rights attorney by qualification from India and the UK. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). He has studied in four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America), and is India’s first Dalit Ph.D.

Suraj’s recent appointment was Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and was part of the founding team of Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University. Suraj holds a research associate position with the department of African and African American Studies. Caste Matters is being translated in seven languages. Named as one of the “25 Most Influential Young Indian” by GQ magazine and the “Most influential Young Dalit” by Zee, Suraj is an author of the bestseller Caste Matters and co-editor of award winning anthology The Radical in Ambedkar. Caste Matters was recently featured in the prestigious “Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” list by The Hindu.

Suraj Yengde is one of India’s leading scholars and public intellectuals.

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