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Annihilation of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as caste)
avg rating 4.61 — 9,378 ratings — published 1936
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as caste)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,403 ratings — published 2020
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as caste)
avg rating 4.48 — 212 ratings — published
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as caste)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,692 ratings — published 2017
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as caste)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,287 ratings — published 2019
Why I Am Not a Hindu (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as caste)
avg rating 3.86 — 690 ratings — published 2001
The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as caste)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,963 ratings — published 2017
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as caste)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,279 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 20 times as caste)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,271 ratings — published 1916
Untouchable (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as caste)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,028 ratings — published 1935
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as caste)
avg rating 4.22 — 671 ratings — published 1997
The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as caste)
avg rating 4.11 — 64 ratings — published
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as caste)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,950 ratings — published 1995
Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.03 — 584 ratings — published
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.42 — 447 ratings — published 2022
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 3.94 — 447 ratings — published
I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.25 — 326 ratings — published
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.20 — 144 ratings — published 2010
Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as caste)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,303 ratings — published 2000
The Untouchables: Who were They and Why They became Untouchables? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as caste)
avg rating 4.50 — 592 ratings — published 1948
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as caste)
avg rating 4.35 — 157 ratings — published 2003
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 — 593 ratings — published 1954
Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,398 ratings — published 1931
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 4.33 — 112 ratings — published 2007
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as caste)
avg rating 3.78 — 156 ratings — published 2001
Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.49 — 61 ratings — published 2023
The Prisons We Broke (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.22 — 194 ratings — published 2008
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.22 — 77 ratings — published
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.10 — 50 ratings — published
Against the Madness of Manu: B.R. Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 154 ratings — published
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as caste)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,323 ratings — published 2008
Dalits: Past, present and future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published
Seeking Begumpura (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 84 ratings — published 2008
Interrogating Caste: Understanding hierarchy & difference in Indian Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as caste)
avg rating 3.91 — 33 ratings — published 2000
The Covenant of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 356,367 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
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.32 — 358 ratings — published 2017
Debrahmanising History: Dominance and Resistance in Indian Society (Extensively Revised Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as caste)
avg rating 4.40 — 35 ratings — published 2005
आमचा बाप आन् आम्ही (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,664 ratings — published 2007
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as caste)
avg rating 4.37 — 68 ratings — published
“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 representation
SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989”
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‘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 representation
SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989”
―
“I have discovered that some groups and castes are offered little to no opportunity to work in the public sector in Nepal.”
― Why Nepal Fails
― Why Nepal Fails
