Nicolas Jaoul
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Biography
Nicolas Jaoul is a researcher in anthropology at the CNRS. His ethnographic and micro-historical approach of the Dalit movement reflects on the social and political dynamics of Dalit emancipation in different regional contexts (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, England). His Film “Sangharsh, times of strife”, shot during his phd fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh in the late 1990s, portrays the activism of three Dalit young men taking up Ambedkar’s advise to his people to “educate, organize and struggle”.