He served on the University of the Witwatersrand Senate and as an executive member of various student body committees. He is also co-editing a book on B R Ambedkar's 125 years.Īdditionally, he regularly writes on caste and inequality in India. His on-going project theorizes the diaspora movement activism, in particular, Dalit diaspora in the North America. Suraj Yengde's interest lay in theories of subordinate subaltern movements and the Global South migration. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) in the nation's history. Suraj is an inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative for Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. When Yengde first moved from India to study in the U.K. Caste Matters was recently featured in the prestigious "Best Non-fiction Books of the Decade" list by The Hindu. Yengde, who serves as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, described how the social pressure of caste impacted him during his education overseas. The book went to reprint within a week of it's publication date.
He is an author of bestseller Caste Matters. To explore this stigmatizing effects of India's caste system that immigrants have imported to the United States, a WGBH News reporter traveled with Yengde to his hometown last year. Suraj Yengde is an award-winning scholar and activist from India. Yengde, other Dalit activists and respondents to a 2018 survey say thatwhen surrounded by others of Indian descentcaste bias follows them to the land of the free.
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