Research

Publications

Rajrah, S. (2026). ‘How the All-India Depressed Classes Women’s Conference Shaped Ambedkar’s Views on Women’. The Historical Journal. R&R.

Rajrah, S. (2026). ‘From Geneva to Philippines: Caste, Race, Sexuality and Transnational Solidarity’. Journal of Women’s History. R&R.

Rajrah, S. (2024). ‘The Subversive Potential of Inconsistency’. Oxford New Books 1(1): 56–60. Review of Jeannie Morefield, Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory.

Rajrah, S. (2021). ‘Developing a Framework of Epistemic Loneliness’. OxPol Blog. Available online.

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Presentations and Talks

‘Archival Dearth’. Center for Women’s, Gender and Queer Histories, January 29, 2026, University of Oxford.

Respondent to Iman Iftikhar, ‘Wages Against Violence: Gender, Surplus Life, and the Feminist Strike’. Oxford Work in Progress in Political Theory, February 2026, University of Oxford.

‘From Geneva to the Philippines: Caste, Race, Sexuality and Transnational Solidarity’. Small Voices of History Conference, October 30 – November 1, 2025, Princeton University.

‘From Geneva to the Philippines: Caste, Race, Sexuality and Transnational Solidarity’. Rutgers Anti-Caste Collective, November 3, 2025, Rutgers University.

‘From Geneva to the Philippines: Caste, Race, Sexuality and Transnational Solidarity’. South Asian Studies Colloquium, November 4, 2025, Harvard University.

‘From Geneva to the Philippines: Caste, Race, Sexuality and Transnational Solidarity’. Indigo Collective and LGBTQ Studies, November 7, 2025, University of Texas at Austin.

‘History of Dalit-Bahujan Women’s Activism in India (1924–56): A Historic Women’s Conference, Dr. Ambedkar and a Text’. Association for Asian Studies Conference, 2024, Seattle.

‘Intellectual and Political Thought of Dalit-Bahujan Women in the Ambedkarite Movement (1924–1956)’. Edinburgh–St Andrews Joint Graduate Conference in Political Theory, 2024.

‘History of Dalit-Bahujan Women’s Activism (1924–1956): A Historic Women’s Conference, Dr. Ambedkar and Two Texts’. South Asia in Transformative Times Conference, 2023, Dublin University.

‘Caste and Its Implications for Sociologies of Inequality’. International Inequalities Institute and British Sociological Association Event, 2023, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Respondent to Jeannie Morefield, ‘Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory’. Oxford Political Theory Workshop, March 6, 2023, University of Oxford.

Respondent to Mario Aguiriano, ‘A Critique of Political Ontology’. Oxford Work in Progress in Political Theory, 2022, University of Oxford.

‘Epistemic Loneliness’. Oxford Political Theory Graduate Conference, 2021, University of Oxford.

Guest Speaker, ‘The Philosophical Contributions of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’. High Commission of India, 2021, London.

‘Epistemic Loneliness, Decolonization and the Demise of Critical Theory’. British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2020.

‘Love in the University Space: Politics of Perception, Performance and Location’. European Feminist Research Conference, 2018, University of Göttingen.

Guest Speaker, ‘Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Feminist Contributions’. British Parliament, 2018, London.

‘Love and the Politics of Performance, Perception and Location’. Gender and Sexuality in Student Politics (GOSSIP), 2017.

‘Raising Feminist Consciousness: Pandita Ramabai as a Gendered Subject of Colonialism’. Annual Festival, Department of History, 2016, Kamala Nehru College.

‘Ha-Joon Chang’s “Kicking Away the Ladder”: A Critique as a Development Strategy in Historical Perspective’. King’s College London Delhi Summer School, 2014, King’s College London.