About the Talk
This talk examines the Supreme Court’s engagement with caste-based violence through the case of Chinthada Anand and the broader trajectory of anti-atrocity adjudication in India. It explores how constitutional and legal frameworks intended to recognise and address caste-based injury can, at the same time, produce forms of exclusion by narrowly defining the conditions under which such harm becomes legally cognisable.
The talk argues that anti-atrocity jurisprudence must be understood not only in terms of protection and remedy, but also through the question of how courts construct, delimit, and, at times, foreclose the recognition of caste injury within constitutional law.
About the Speaker
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda is Associate Professor of Politics at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University. His research and teaching interests include Indian politics, caste, religion, law, constitutionalism, secularism, and judicial politics. His work examines the intersections of caste, citizenship, law, and constitutional debates in contemporary India, with a particular interest in how constitutional and legal institutions shape political and social relations. Dr Gundimeda is currently working on a book project, Debating Diversity: Law, Religion and Citizenship in Contemporary India.
