Ketaki Jaywant completed her Doctoral Studies in History at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation is entitled Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India.She specializes in Modern South Asia with research interest in the history of caste, politics of knowledge, Marathi-print world, global circulation of categories of race and caste, and the history of intellectual trends and critical thought in South Asia.

Courses:

Global Inequalities: A Comparative History of Caste and Race

Religion, Identity, and Politics in Asia,

Empire and Asian Connections

An Introduction to South Asian History

From Rebellion to Liberalization: History of Modern South Asia.