💨 Abstract

US-based historian and author Shailaja Paik, a Dalit woman from rural Maharashtra, has become the first Dalit person to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious 'genius grant' of $800,000. Paik's work focuses on Dalit studies, gender, and sexuality in modern India, and she is expanding the study of Dalit feminist thought through ethnographic oral history interviews.

Courtesy: theprint.in