Sreyartha Krishna

Sreyartha Krishna is a student of history and an aspiring fiction writer from Sittilingi, Tamil Nadu.

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The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction

The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction

Sreyartha Krishna

15 Jul 2025

An annotated photograph from ‘The People of India’, a British colonial compilation initiated in the 1860s, showing a man and woman from a “slave caste” in Travancore. “Slavery” is not a word used very often in histories of Southasia today, and even when it is discussed it rarely appears in conjunction with “caste”.

The forgotten history of caste slavery

Sreyartha Krishna

28 Apr 2025

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