The launch of The Past of the Outcaste. (From left to right) the editors Professor Yagati Chinna Rao, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU and Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU with the panel Professor Vijaya Ramaswamy, Chairperson at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus at JNU, Professor N. Sukumar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University and Professor Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Professor of History at IGNOU.