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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 · Sep 2015
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Urmila PawarTranslated from Marathi by Maya Pandit, Urmila Pawar's memoir turns basket-making, family memory, and movement work into Dalit feminist social history.
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Papers · Oct 1998
Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of 'Difference' and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position
Sharmila RegeIn this 1998 EPW essay, Sharmila Rege asks how Dalit women's situated experience can become collective feminist knowledge without turning identity into either silence or an unquestionable credential.
02Papers · Oct 1995
Dalit Women Talk Differently
Gopal GuruGopal Guru’s 1995 EPW essay links Dalit women’s autonomous organizing to caste-shaped knowledge, gendered exclusion within Dalit politics, and the conditions of feminist solidarity.
