Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India

This book examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD student, died,by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2016 in Hyderabad, India.

Rohith’s death sparked national and international outrage and led to the shutdown of ...