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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 · 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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Books · Apr 2014
Karukku
BamaBama’s Karukku begins from Tamil Dalit Christian women’s experience to write caste, religious institutions, education, and self-recovery in conflict.
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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.
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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.
