India-born historian and author Shailaja Paik became the first Dalit scholar to be awarded the coveted MacArthur Fellowship, ...

The sexual and gendered arrangements of the caste system to oppress Dalit Tamasha women remained unexamined,’ said Paik who ...

Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ...

Shailaja Paik, is an author who has become the first Dalit person to win the MacArthur Fellowship. Shailaja Paik's journey ...

Shailaja Paik, a Dalit historian from Pune's slum, wins the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking work on caste, gender, and sexuality Growing up with her parents and three sisters in a ...

The MacArthur Fellows Program, also called the Genius Grant, is an annual prize awarded by the John D. and Catherine T.

Shailaja Paik, PhD, a Charles Phelphs Taft Distinguished Research Professor of History and affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies and sociology in UC’s College of Arts and ...

The sattras provided refuge for those seeking to escape the Paik system under which, any able-bodied person who was not a Brahmin or a noble could be used for labour, services or conscripted into the ...

Historian and a professor at University of Cincinnati, Shailaja Paik has received a $800,000 "genius" grant from Mc Arthur ...