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Dalit Books
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Annihilation of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,935 ratings — published 1936
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,642 ratings — published 2017
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.35 — 110 ratings — published 2007
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,256 ratings — published 2019
Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.98 — 152 ratings — published 2012
The Prisons We Broke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.24 — 181 ratings — published 2008
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.21 — 638 ratings — published 1997
Unclaimed Terrain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.00 — 74 ratings — published 2012
Untouchable (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,808 ratings — published 1935
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.23 — 140 ratings — published 2010
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,227 ratings — published 1916
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.46 — 50 ratings — published 2011
The Adivasi Will Not Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,021 ratings — published 2015
Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.37 — 114 ratings — published 2012
Ambedkar's World: The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.02 — 49 ratings — published 2013
Growing Up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.68 — 31 ratings — published 2000
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonios (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2006
Poisoned Bread : Translations From Modern Marathi Dalit Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.18 — 68 ratings — published 1992
Singing/Thinking Anti Caste: Essays on Anti Caste Music and Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.45 — 29 ratings — published
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.94 — 431 ratings — published
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.47 — 208 ratings — published
To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.41 — 44 ratings — published
Radical in Ambedkar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.25 — 51 ratings — published
Seeking Begumpura (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.40 — 78 ratings — published 2008
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.49 — 142 ratings — published 2010
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.21 — 75 ratings — published
The Outcaste (Akkarmashi)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.75 — 250 ratings — published 1984
Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.85 — 71 ratings — published 2013
The Exercise of Freedom: An Introduction to Dalit Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.42 — 31 ratings — published 2013
Hindutva and Dalits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2005
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.36 — 36 ratings — published 2004
The Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 2012
Towards An Aesthetic Of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies And Considerations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.47 — 34 ratings — published 2004
Why I Am Not a Hindu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.86 — 679 ratings — published 2001
No Alphabet In Sight (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2011
Dalit Visions: the Anti-caste Movement (Tracts for the Times)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 1995
Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1992
आमचा बाप आन् आम्ही (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,661 ratings — published 2007
A Dalit History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.14 — 28 ratings — published 2017
Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.28 — 25 ratings — published
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.55 — 20 ratings — published
Water in a Broken Pot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.19 — 31 ratings — published
Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume 1)
by (shelved 2 times as dalit)
avg rating 4.44 — 55 ratings — published
“Caste is a very important element of Indian society. As soon as a person is born, caste determines his or her destiny. Being born is not in the control of a person. If it were in one’s control, then why would I have been born in a Bhangi household? Those who call themselves the standard-bearers of this country’s great cultural heritage, did they decide which homes they would be born into? Of course, they turn to scriptures to justify their position, the scriptures that establish feudal values instead of promoting equality
and freedom.”
― Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
and freedom.”
― Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
“सदियों से चली आ रही इस प्रथा के पार्श्व में जातीय अहम की पराकाष्ठा है। समाज में जो गहरी खाई है उसे प्रथा और गहरा बनाती है। एक साजिश है हीनता के भँवर में फँसा देने की।
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.”
―
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.”
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