Dr Sufiya Pahtan is Assistant Professor at SDM Centre for Inter-disciplinary Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHS), Ujire and co-author of the article ‘Are there Caste Atrocities in India?: What the Data Can and Cannot Tell Us’ in the book Western Foundations of the Caste System. She is currently co-investigator in a British Academy project which seeks to investigate the foundations of caste law in India in order to make sound recommendations to the UK on what directions international law should envisage on the question of caste.