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Dalit


Dalit Books

Annihilation of Caste
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...
The Prisons We Broke
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
Unclaimed Terrain
Untouchable
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India
The Adivasi Will Not Dance
Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit
Karukku
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Motherwit by Urmila PawarDe Rerum Natura by David HillstromThe Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria
Dalit Literature
100 books — 13 voters
Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanAnts Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
Dalit Nonfiction
94 books — 4 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
29 books — 5 voters
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

Writing IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsElizabeth'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. More
Ambedkarite
27 books — 5 voters
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDBhimayana by Srividya NatarajanWomen, Race, and Class by Angela Y. DavisTurning the Pot, Tilling the Land by Kancha Ilaiah
Social Justice Books: Navayana Publishing
101 books — 6 voters

Quotes Tagged “Dalit”

Omprakash Valmiki
“ Caste pride is behind this centuries-old custom. The deep chasm that divides the society is made even deeper by this custom, a conspiracy to trap us in the whirlpool of inferiority. ”
― Omprakash Valmiki, Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
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Omprakash Valmiki
“ The savarnas constructed all sorts of mythologies: of chivalry, of ideals. What was the outcome? A defeated social order in the clutches of hopelessness, poverty, illiteracy, narrow-mindedness, religious inertia, and priestocracy, a social order embroiled in ritualism, which, fragmented, was repeatedly defeated by the Greeks, Shakas, Huns, Afghans, Moghuls, French, and English. Yet in the name of their valor and their greatness, savarnas kept hitting the weak and the helpless. Kept burning homes ...more ”
― Omprakash Valmiki, Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
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