Caste


Annihilation of Caste
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Caste Matters
Why I Am Not a Hindu
The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
The God of Small Things
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Karukku
Untouchable
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती
The abolition of caste in India is impossible without dismantling the entrenched economic and land-based power structures that uphold it. As Dr. B.R. Ambedkar forcefully argued, caste is not merely a division of labor, but "a division of labourers" (Annihilation of Caste 17), where the hierarchical allocation of work is inherited and enforced through socio-economic mechanisms. Historically, caste has operated as a system of economic exploitation, wherein dominant castes consolidated power throug ...more
Dr.Thanigaivelan Santhakumar

Santosh Kalwar
Nepal is confronted with many societal issues, including the caste system, child labor, illiteracy, gender inequality, superstitions, religious disputes, and a slew of other issues.
Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

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