Field Notes from Begumpura is an ongoing project by artist Rahee Punyashloka that imagines a future where Dalit and Adivasi communities live free from the violence and oppression of the caste system. Inspired by the 15th-century poem “Begumpura” (“The City with No Sorrows”) by Guru Ravidas—one of South Asia’s earliest visions of a utopian society—the project takes the form of speculative ethnographic field notes documenting this fictional casteless world. Reclaiming the colonial conventions of…