Caste


Annihilation of Caste
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
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
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Persistence of Caste by Anand TeltumbdeUntouchables Castes in India by ShyamlalHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanRepublic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde
Caste Discrimination
95 books — 3 voters
Ambedkar by Gail OmvedtJoothan by Omprakash ValmikiThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Elephant Chaser's Daughter by Shilpa RajComing Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt
Dalit Biographies
65 books — 6 voters

Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
32 books — 7 voters
The Museum of Broken Tea Cups by Gunjan VedaSebastian and Sons by T.M. KrishnaCollected Plays of Sanjay Jiwane by Sanjay JiwaneStrength of our wrists by Premanand GajveeDalit Art and Visual Imagery by Gary Michael Tartakov
Dalit Art and Music
10 books — 2 voters

The Gilded Ones by Namina FornaRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi
Colored Blood
3 books — 2 voters
Politics as Social Text in India by Jayabrata SarkarHindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan BasuThe Dalit Truth by K. RajuThe Trauma of Caste by Thenmozhi SoundararajanBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India by V. Geetha
Dalit Sociology
101 books — 2 voters

“ Why do we need reservation in Private sectors? Private sector reservation is not just a matter of employment—it is a matter of democratic justice and representation in a society where caste continues to determine who gets hired, promoted, funded, and heard. Without reservation, Dalits remain invisible in boardrooms, media, law firms, tech companies, and startups. As Suraj Yengde points out in Caste Matters (2019), “In India's new economy, Dalits are the untouchables of the digital age. There is ...more ”
― Dr.Thanigaivelan Santhakumar

“ Ендогамія зміцнює межі касти, забороняючи шлюби поза своєю групою чи статеві стосунки або навіть найменші ознаки романтичного інтересу до членів інших каст. Вона створює захисний екран між кастами й стає головним засобом утримання ресурсів та спорідненості в межах кожного рівня кастової системи. Завдяки усуненню законних родинних звʼязків між кастами ендогамія позбавляє людей здатності до емпатії чи почуття спільної долі. Під впливом ендогамії члени панівної касти рідко виявляють особистий інтер ...more ”
― Ізабель Вілкерсон, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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