Subaltern


Annihilation of Caste
Untouchable
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Orientalism
The Adivasi Will Not Dance
Poisoned Bread : Translations From Modern Marathi Dalit Literature
झाडाझडती [Zadazadati]
Adrift in the South
Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Modernity of Slavery: Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu (South Asia Research)
Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages
We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991
Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstA Current of Blood by Namdeo DhasalDays Will Come Back by Kamal Dev PallBlues from Bhimnagar by Yogesh MaitreyaDalit Voices in Indian Poetry by Sakunthala A.I.
Dalit Poetry
25 books — 2 voters
The Politics of Belonging in India by Daniel J. RycroftThe Adivasi Will Not Dance by Hansda Sowvendra ShekharOut of this Earth by Felix PadelThe Adivasi Question Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood by Indra MunshiAdivasis in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati
Adivasi
68 books — 2 voters

Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita MenonMs Militancy by Meena KandasamyStanding on an Apple Box by Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth DhanushPlaying with Fire by Sangtin WritersThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Feminism in India
62 books — 9 voters
Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanVenomous Touch by Ravikumar
Dalit Nonfiction
94 books — 4 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
98 books — 13 voters
Elizabeth's Mountain by Lucille GuarinoBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorMemoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed Adams
Ambedkarite
27 books — 5 voters

Louis Yako
I personally believe (and I know many readers will find this controversial) that we should never engage with any writers or scholars whose work is intentionally Euro-American centered and purposely ignores or refuses to engage with knowledge produced by thinkers outside the West. In other words, in knowledge production, reciprocate treatment (whether in engagement or citation) can be effective in challenging and changing the rules of the game.
Louis Yako

Louis Yako
While the imperial university continues to pay lip service to letting the subaltern speak, make no mistake: the subalterns have never been silent. They have always been thinking, writing, doing, and sensing. The problem has always been with the shortsightedness and racism of the colonizers and the imperial spaces where certain knowledge gets produced and promoted, while other knowledge gets silenced, mutilated, and buried under the rubble of indifference and arrogance.
Louis Yako

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