In this commentary, I discuss scholarship on race in study of religion in South Asia. Using my experiences in the field, I look at how and why studies on race are marginalized, dismissed, and/or misread. I argue that without a feminist analysis informed by women of color feminisms and queer of color critique, race scholarship will only continue to be marginalized and/or misread even as the field of South Asian religions tries to center race as an object of analysis. I foreground race and caste power as a way to critique how threads of power run through much of the field of South Asian religions and structures the ways in which scholarship on race is approached (or not). As Asian studies broadly and South Asian Studies specifically creates new avenues for scholarship on race, the study of religion in South Asia must examine how racism is institutionalized within the field.

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学习南亚宗教领域的种族

在这篇评论中，我讨论了南亚宗教研究中的种族奖学金。利用我在该领域的经验，我将研究种族研究如何被边缘化，被驳回和/或被误读。我认为，如果没有由女性对颜色女权主义和对颜色的批判的了解而进行的女权主义分析，种族奖学金将只会继续被边缘化和/或误读，即使南亚宗教领域试图将种族作为分析的对象。我将种族和种姓权力作为一种前景，以批评权力的脉络如何贯穿南亚宗教的大部分领域，并构建关于（或不采取）种族学问的方式。由于亚洲研究广泛而南亚研究专门为种族奖学金创造了新途径，