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
Why I Am Not a Hindu
Caste Matters
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
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती
I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS
Ambedkar by Gail OmvedtWings of Fire by A.P.J. Abdul KalamUnearthed by Chanchal GargPlaying It My Way by Sachin TendulkarIndian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann
Biographies of Indians
110 books — 25 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
110 books — 72 voters

Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita MenonMs Militancy by Meena KandasamyStanding on an Apple Box by Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth DhanushPlaying with Fire by Sangtin WritersWhen a Bulbul Sings by Hawaa Ayoub
Feminism in India
62 books — 9 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
69 books — 2 voters

Why 'Scheduled'? ‘Scheduled’ refers to the fact that these castes are listed in a constitutional schedule to facilitate policy targeting. It is a policy mechanism, not a cultural term. ❝ “The schedules enable the state to operationalize equality by targeting long-denied communities.” — Marc Galanter, Competing Equalities. OUP, 1984 Articles enabling reservations: Article 15(4) – Special provisions in education Article 16(4) – Reservation in government jobs Article 330–334 – Legislative represe ...more
Dr.Thanigaivelan Santhakumar

Santosh Kalwar
I have discovered that some groups and castes are offered little to no opportunity to work in the public sector in Nepal.
Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

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