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Books · Nov 2022
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Thenmozhi SoundararajanThenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.
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Books · Aug 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel WilkersonIsabel Wilkerson compares U.S. racial hierarchy, Indian caste, and Nazi Germany to describe caste as a hidden grammar of domination.
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Books · Jul 2019
Caste Matters
Suraj YengdeSuraj Yengde combines personal narrative and social analysis to show caste not as India’s past, but as power still operating in education, love, labor, and diaspora.
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Books · Feb 2019
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Yashica DuttYashica Dutt extends the language of “coming out” to caste, tracing concealment, shame, mobility, and the politics of public identity.
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Books · Jun 2018
The Prisons We Broke
Baby KambleBaby Kamble’s memoir treats “prison” as a structure built by caste, poverty, religious discipline, and household patriarchy together.
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Books · Jul 2017
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha GidlaThrough her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.
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Films · Jul 2021
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Payal KapadiaPayal Kapadia combines fictional love letters, student protest footage, and archival fragments to connect caste-separated intimacy with the remaking of Indian universities under nationalist power.
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Films · Jan 2021
Writing with Fire
Rintu Thomas & Sushmit GhoshThis documentary follows the Dalit women journalists of Khabar Lahariya as they move from print to smartphones, turning reporting into a practice of anti-caste feminist authority.
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Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
Sharmila RegeSharmila Rege responds to and extends Gopal Guru's argument, proposing Dalit women's experience as a critical standpoint rather than a fixed boundary of difference. The essay matters for Indian feminism, anti-caste politics, and feminist epistemology.
02Papers · Oct 1995
Dalit Women Talk Differently
Gopal GuruGopal Guru's short intervention is a key starting point for Dalit feminist debate. It argues that Dalit women cannot be represented adequately by either upper-caste feminism or male-dominated Dalit politics, because caste, class, and gender together reshape experience, political organization, and knowledge.
03Papers · Apr 1993
Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste, Class and State
Uma ChakravartiUma Chakravarti's classic essay develops the concept of Brahmanical patriarchy, showing how caste order is reproduced through control over women's sexuality, marriage, inheritance, and kinship. It is essential for understanding Indian gender history, caste violence, and anti-caste feminism.
04Papers · Apr 1992
The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India
Bina AgarwalAgarwal critiques essentialist ecofeminist claims through Indian cases, shifting attention to land, class, caste, labor, and control over resources.