On Caste and Race: Analogous Systems of Oppression and Discrimination
Professor Meena Dhanda – London School of Economics and University of Wolverhampton

Professor Meena Dhanda is a leading scholar on caste and identity, focusing on casteism as a form of racism. Her research as a socially engaged political philosopher is transdisciplinary. She explores the conjugations of caste, class, gender, and race, drawing attention to the social injustices faced by oppressed groups and their individual and collective resistance to domination. Professor Dhanda was awarded The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2010-2012, for primary research on her project Caste Aside: Dalit Punjabi Identity and Experience, and in 2013-2014, she was PI of an interdisciplinary project, Caste in Britain, funded by the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, co-producing two major reports, which informed the government on how caste may be incorporated as an aspect of the protected characteristic of ‘race’ in the Equality Act 2010. A very prolific scholar, Professor Dhanda has co-edited special issues of academic journals and guest co-edited a cross-journal special feature on Race and Racism in Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Kindly supported by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and Strathclyde Institute of Education.