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Annihilation of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as caste)
avg rating 4.61 — 9,072 ratings — published 1936
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as caste)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,418 ratings — published 2020
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as caste)
avg rating 4.47 — 209 ratings — published
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as caste)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,264 ratings — published 2019
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as caste)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,658 ratings — published 2017
Why I Am Not a Hindu (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as caste)
avg rating 3.86 — 681 ratings — published 2001
The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as caste)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,848 ratings — published 2017
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as caste)
avg rating 3.96 — 336,631 ratings — published 1997
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as caste)
avg rating 4.50 — 141 ratings — published 2010
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as caste)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,242 ratings — published 1916
Untouchable (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as caste)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,885 ratings — published 1935
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 3.94 — 439 ratings — published
I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.24 — 322 ratings — published
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.11 — 64 ratings — published
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.23 — 142 ratings — published 2010
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.21 — 643 ratings — published 1997
The Untouchables: Who were They and Why They became Untouchables? (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.49 — 578 ratings — published 1948
Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,966 ratings — published 2000
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,313 ratings — published 1995
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as caste)
avg rating 4.42 — 431 ratings — published 2022
Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.03 — 521 ratings — published
India's Silent Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published 2003
Riddles in Hinduism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.19 — 582 ratings — published 1954
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.36 — 152 ratings — published 2003
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.34 — 111 ratings — published 2007
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 3.77 — 153 ratings — published 2001
Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.46 — 56 ratings — published 2023
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.21 — 75 ratings — published
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.08 — 49 ratings — published
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,678 ratings — published 2008
Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,354 ratings — published 1931
Dalits: Past, present and future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published
Against the Madness of Manu: B.R. Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 149 ratings — published
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 341,574 ratings — published 2023
Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 3.86 — 14 ratings — published 2013
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.36 — 36 ratings — published 2004
The Prisons We Broke (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.24 — 185 ratings — published 2008
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.32 — 355 ratings — published 2017
Seeking Begumpura (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.41 — 79 ratings — published 2008
Interrogating Caste: Understanding hierarchy & difference in Indian Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 3.91 — 33 ratings — published 2000
आमचा बाप आन् आम्ही (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,663 ratings — published 2007
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.36 — 67 ratings — published
Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.22 — 45 ratings — published 2003
“He [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1795], coined the term Caucasian on the basis of a favorite skull of his that had come into his possession from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. To him, the skull was the most beautiful of all that he owned. So he gave the group to which he belonged, the Europeans, the same name as the region that had produced it. That is how people now identified as white got the scientific-sounding yet random name Caucasian.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said--
"You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him, so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste; and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.”
― Jane Eyre
"You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him, so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste; and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.”
― Jane Eyre
