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Caste Books
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Annihilation of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as caste)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,647 ratings — published 1936
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as caste)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,139 ratings — published 2020
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as caste)
avg rating 4.46 — 199 ratings — published
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as caste)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,225 ratings — published 2019
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as caste)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,604 ratings — published 2017
Why I Am Not a Hindu (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as caste)
avg rating 3.85 — 668 ratings — published 2001
The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as caste)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,688 ratings — published 2017
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as caste)
avg rating 3.96 — 324,927 ratings — published 1997
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as caste)
avg rating 4.49 — 139 ratings — published 2010
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as caste)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,210 ratings — published 1916
Untouchable (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as caste)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,609 ratings — published 1935
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 3.94 — 423 ratings — published
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.10 — 63 ratings — published
Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,384 ratings — published 2000
The Untouchables: Who were They and Why They became Untouchables? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as caste)
avg rating 4.49 — 555 ratings — published 1948
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 3.76 — 152 ratings — published 2001
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.22 — 138 ratings — published 2010
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.20 — 622 ratings — published 1997
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.38 — 159,811 ratings — published 1995
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.36 — 142 ratings — published 2003
I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.23 — 310 ratings — published
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.35 — 110 ratings — published 2007
Riddles in Hinduism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.18 — 568 ratings — published 1954
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.44 — 408 ratings — published 2022
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.21 — 72 ratings — published
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,647 ratings — published 2008
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.41 — 310,184 ratings — published 2023
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.08 — 49 ratings — published
India's Silent Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.10 — 40 ratings — published 2003
Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.14 — 323 ratings — published
Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.41 — 49 ratings — published 2023
Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,246 ratings — published 1931
Dalits: Past, present and future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 ratings — published
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.32 — 348 ratings — published 2017
The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 ratings — published 2009
Against the Madness of Manu: B.R. Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 148 ratings — published
Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2013
Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.20 — 44 ratings — published 2003
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 35 ratings — published 2004
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonios (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.19 — 42 ratings — published 2006
Debrahmanising History: Dominance and Resistance in Indian Society (Extensively Revised Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 35 ratings — published 2005
Seasons of the Palm (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.19 — 423 ratings — published 2004
Interrogating Caste: Understanding hierarchy & difference in Indian Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 3.91 — 33 ratings — published 2000
Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 3.83 — 429 ratings — published 1993
“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 through control over land, knowledge, and religious institutions, relegating Dalits and other oppressed groups to landless labor and degrading occupations. Ambedkar contended that “caste is not just a social institution, it is also an economic one” and warned that “you cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You have to blow it up” (Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India 23).”
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“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 інтерес до щастя, самореалізації й добробуту тих, кого вважають нижчими за себе, втрачаючи здатність ототожнювати себе з цими людьми та їхньою долею. По суті, ендогамія посилює схильність членів панівної касти вважати нижчих за себе не лише чимось меншим за людей, а й ворогами, чужинцями та загрозою, котру слід тримати під контролем за будь-яку ціну.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
