Dalit FeminismBooks

Thenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.

Suraj 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.

Yashica Dutt extends the language of “coming out” to caste, tracing concealment, shame, mobility, and the politics of public identity.

Baby Kamble’s memoir treats “prison” as a structure built by caste, poverty, religious discipline, and household patriarchy together.

Through her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.

Translated from Marathi by Maya Pandit, Urmila Pawar's memoir turns basket-making, family memory, and movement work into Dalit feminist social history.

Bama’s Tamil life narrative Karukku examines caste inside Catholic institutions, the politics of literary language, and the tension between selfhood and community.

Sharmila Rege curates Ambedkar’s writings on Brahmanical patriarchy, foregrounding anti-caste thought as a deeply feminist critique.

Drawing on 500 Dalit women’s narratives across four Indian states, this study traces gendered violence through caste, class, land, and barriers to justice.

Bama replaces the solitary heroine with a collective life of Dalit women, making labor, violence, laughter, language, and intergenerational memory the substance of grassroots feminism.

Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women's life narratives as historical and theoretical knowledge, asking who gets to write caste and gender into India's feminist history.

Anupama Rao’s anthology brings history, political argument, and Dalit women’s testimony together to show how caste and gender jointly organize bodies, labor, law, and intellectual authority.