Resources for Nepalis to learn more about Caste-based Injustices

This is a work in progress list of resources for people interested to learn more about the history of caste-based injustices and their implications. This includes links to books that can be bought online, journal articles, opinion pieces, podcasts and videos.

If you want to be a contributor and add to the list, please email me at subinmulmi@gmail.com and I can authorize you to make changes. You can also email me the resources that you think need to be added. Feel free to post your comments on the comment section.

Videos on History of the Caste System in Nepal 

• Lecture by Aahuti at Thames College

• Aahuti on Caste, Class, Varna and their interrelationship in Nepal

• Interviews about Dalit oppression : Sajha Sawal Episode with Aahuti and Dinesh Tripathi

Podcasts

The Record

• The Old Weight of Caste - Sarita Pariyar

• Interview with Suraj Yengde

• The History Series
• The criminalization of cow slaughter is a tool of caste-terror - Shiva Hari Gyawali

Opinion Pieces

Nepali

• जात व्यवस्थामा रामराज्यको दलन- आहुति

• जातीय जन्जिर - प्रकाशचन्द्र परियार
• छोरीको प्रश्न : बाबाको घरभित्र म किन पस्न नहुने ? - बिन्दु परियार थापा

• छुवाछुतमुक्त राष्ट्रमा अन्तरजातीय प्रेम किन वर्जित ? - गोपाल नेपाली / सविता कोइराला

• लज्जित छु, तिम्रो प्रेमको रक्षा गर्न सकिनँ ! - गीता रसाइली

• ज्यानमारा ‘जात’ - रूपबहादुर विश्वकर्मा

• गणतन्त्रमा पानी चल्दैन, जातीय कारणले चौरजहारी नरसंहार हुन्छ! - बाबुराम विश्वकर्मा

• देशभित्रैको सिमानासँग कहिलेसम्म लडिरहने ? प्रकाश सपूत

• दलितको हत्या कहिलेसम्म? - मिमबहादुर परियार

• सहरमा दलित - गौरी नेपाली

• छुत योनिको अछुत कथा-सरिता परियार

• जातको जाँतो- सरिता परियार

• आमाको उधारो हिसाब–किताब- सरिता परियार

• अन्तर्जातीय प्रेममा दलितको मूल्य - शुष्मा बराली

• भेरीमा बगेको हाम्रो मानवता - मिलन बगाले

• साेसल मिडिया र दलित बिमर्श-जेबी विश्वकर्मा

• सत्ता, शक्ति र जातीय अहंकारमा रुमलिएको रुकुम हत्याकाण्ड -  रमेश सुनाम

• तपाईं तटस्थ कि अन्यायी ? - प्रणिका कोयू

• मैले दलित समुदायसँग माफी माग्नैपर्छ - डोलु आले मगर

• उत्पीडनको छत्रछायामा ‘सामाजिक सद्भाव’-राजेन्द्र महर्जन/सरिता परियार

• न्यायकालागि दलित लेखन -- सुभाष नेपाली र श्याम शर्मा

• प्रजाको 'पाप’, श्री ५ को 'पुण्य’ -राजेन्द्र महर्जन

• ‘परम्परागत क्‍वारेन्टाइन’ मा पतियाको छाया -राजेन्द्र महर्जन

• छुवाछूतको भाइरस !-राजेन्द्र महर्जन

• उदारवादको निरन्तर अभिनय - डा. सञ्जीव उप्रेती

• जातीय आतंकवाद विरुद्ध ! - शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• नाममा के छैन ? -शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• प्रेम बर्जित देशमा…-शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• जरुर, जातमा केही त छ ! -शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• स्थिति मल्लका गणतान्त्रिक ‘प्रेत’ -शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• दानदक्षिणाको जातशास्त्र-शिवहरि ज्ञवाली

• दलित हिंसामा तपाईं र मेरो जिम्मेवारी - Sanjeev Pokharel

• न्यायको ढोकामा पनि दलित अछूत ? - मनबहादुर बस्नेत

• आरक्षण ब्राह्मणहरुले पनि पाएकै हुन्- नरेश रेग्मी

• जातीय अर्थतन्त्र - शुभाष नेपाली

• सुशासनका लागि समावेशी शासन - शुभाष नेपाली
• थर खोज्नेहरूका नाममा ! - शुभाष नेपाली
• पानी छोएको निहुमा मान्छे मारिने नीति र नियति कहिलेसम्म ? -  संजिव कार्की
• तपाईको थर पनि भन्नुस न ! - संजिव कार्की
• प्रेमको बदला मृत्यु उपहार दिने जातीय भाइरस - संजिव कार्की

English

• What is and isn’t in a word? - Suresh Bishwakarma

• Supposed ‘suicides’ point towards police incompetence - Abha Lal

• Killing in the name of caste - The Record

• Nawaraj: The Spark that will light the fire - Binayak Sundas

• Untouchable Stories of touchable vaginas - Sarita Pariyar (adapted version of a translation by Prawin Adhikari)
• Still Untouchable - Amish Raj Mulmi

• Caste has been essential to the Nepali Hindu state - Amish Raj Mulmi

• Lying to survive: Dalits in urban life - Gauri Nepali (translated by Sandesh Ghimire)

• Caste Apartheid in the Judiciary - Raksha Ram Harijan

• On Seeing “Dalit” Lives - Abha Lal

• Bullied Every Time

• Bahunvada: Myth or Reality - Kamal P. Malla
• The moment of truth - Rajani Maharjan
• The Third Space of Conversation - Sanjeev Uprety
• Casteized Economy - Subhash Nepali
• Judging by caste - Roshani Sunam
• Justice deferred for Dalits - Suraj Ray
• Structural blindness - Subhash Nepali
• From tika to ashes - Sarita Pariya
• Casteized Economy - Subhash Nepali
• Read, write and bring about changes - Subhash Nepali
• The media’s portrayal of Dalits is incomplete - Sarita Pariyar
• Gender-aware policies needed - Subhash Nepali
• Non-Dalits are not shaken to the core; the response is hollow: Dalit youths – Anjali Subedi

Books

Please contact Samata Foundation for the following books

• नेपालमा वर्ण व्यवस्था र वर्ग सङ्घर्ष - आहूती

• आफर - उन्मुक्त पुष्ता

• दलनविरुद्ध प्रतिरोध - राजेन्द्र महर्जन र डा. यामबहादुर किसान
• दलित सौन्दर्य - बोध

• दलित : थर गोत्र भ्रम र यथार्थ
• सत्ता–विमर्श र दलित

• डोम समुदायको पहिचान : बदलिँदो जीवनशैली
• Varna System and Class Struggle in Nepal - Aahuti
• A Land of our Own - Suvash Darnal

Please contact Himal Books for the following books

• भाग्यवाद र विकासः आधुनिकीकरण हेतु नेपालको जमर्को - डोरबहादुर विष्ट

• नेपालको चिनारी - टोनी हागन
• The Stigma of the Name: Making and Remaking of Dalit Identity - Amar Bahadur BK
• Land, Lineage and State : A Study of Newar Society in Medieval Nepal - Prayag Raj Sharma
• The State and Society in Nepal: Historical foundations and contemporary trends - Prayag Raj Sharma
• The Caste Hierarchy and the State of Nepal: A Study of the Muluki Ain of 1854 - Andras Hofer

Please contact Pilgrims Books for the following books

• On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal. Mary M. Cameron

Books Available on Amazon

• On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal - Mary M. Cameron. 
• The Nepali Dalit Social Movement - Yam Bahadur Kisan

• Landownership in Nepal - Mahesh Chandra Regmi
• Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization - Dor Bahadur Bista

• Essays on Nepal: Past and Present - Sam Cowan
• A History of Nepal - John Whelpton

Photobook

• Dalit - A Quest for Dignity - Nepal Picture Library

Additional Books on Caste in General

• Caste Matters - Suraj Yengde
• Coming Out as Dalit - Yashica Dutt
• Republic of Caste - Anand Teltumbde
• Gulamgiri/ Slavery - Jyotiba Phule

Fiction

• One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan

Journal Articles

• The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy
• Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage
• Travelling Castes: Nepalese Immigrants in Australia - Mitra Pariyar
• Living with Diabetes : Lay Narratives as Idioms of Distress among the Low-Caste Dalit of Nepal - Tirtha B. Thapa
• Children from Dalit Community in Rural Nepal: A Challenge to Inclusive Education - Damodar Khanal
• Dalit Identity in urban Pokhara, Nepal - Bishnu Pariyar and John C. Lovett
• Democratic Politics in Nepal: Dalit Political Inequality and Representation - Mom Bishwakarma
• Evidence of Earnings Inequality based on Caste in Nepal - Menuka Karki and Alok K. Bohara
• The Dalit Context- Harka Gurung
• Empowering Women through Education: Experiences from Dalit Women in Nepal - Nerine Guinee
• Perceptions of Social Change in Nepal: Are Caste, Ethnicity, and Region of Relevance - Aadne Aasland and Marit Haug
• Caste, State and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal - Nancy E. Levine

Studies and Reports

• नेपालमा सकारात्मक उपाय र सामाजिक समावेशीकरण : अवधारणा, अनुभव र उपादेयता - यामबहादुर किसान

• प्यूठान ओखरकोटका दलितहरु : एक अध्ययन -  डा. यामबहादुर किसान, अर्जुन विश्वकर्मा र बिरु नेपाली

• असमानता र सकारात्मक कदमः विश्वव्यापी बहसमा नेपाल

• जातीय विभेदः न्यायका लागि पहल (नेपालमा दलित मानवअधिकार)- शिवहरि ज्ञवाली
• नेपाली मिडियामा दलितः सहभागिता र विषयवस्तु- जेबी विश्वकर्मा
• Social Exclusion and Conflict Transformation in Nepal: Women, Dalit and Ethnic Groups
• The Nepal Multidimensional Exclusion Index: Making Smaller Social Groups Visible and Providing a Baseline for Tracking Results on Social Inclusion
• Statistical Evidence on Social and Economic Exclusion in Nepal
• Gender and Social Exclusion in Nepal : Update
• Opening the door to Equality: Access to Justice for Dalits in Nepal
• Key Challenges and Strategic Tools to Combat Caste-based and Analogous Forms of Discrimination
• Ethnicity, Inequality and Politics in Nepal - edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Arjun Guneratne
• Some Aspects of Nepal’s Social Demography: Census 2011 Update - Pitamber Sharma
• Multi-ethnic Interface in Eastern Nepal - Anne Z. Parker
• Land and Social Change in East Nepal : A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations
• The Economic and Social Basis for State Restructuring in Nepal

Policy Papers

• Trends in Dalit Writing (Samata Policy Paper)

Violence Against Dalit Community in Nepal

• Year wise Incidents of Caste-based discrimination and violence

The Case of Nabaraj BK

• Timeline of the Incident

• चौरजहारी घटनाबारे इन्सेकको स्थलगत अध्ययन प्रतिवेदन: घरेलु हतियारद्वारा एकतर्फी आक्रमण
• रुकुम घटना : ‘नवराजसहितका युवालाई चार गाउँ मिलेर लखेटेका थिए’
• रुकुम घटना : अझै छट्पटाइरहेका छन् घाइते
• रुकुम घटनाका पीडित भन्छन् : न्याय पनि मर्ने हो कि भन्‍ने चिन्ता छ 

• रुकुम घटना : गाउँलेले कुटिरहे, प्रहरी हेरिरह्यो

• प्रदेश सांसदहरुको स्थलगत अध्ययनको निष्कर्ष : ‘सोती घटना योजनाबद्ध’

• रुकुम घटनाको पोस्टमार्टम रिपोर्ट : शरीरभरि चोट, पेटमा पानी छैन

• ‘छोरो मारिँदा पनि न्याय देऊ भनेर आन्दोलन गर्नुपरेको छ’

• Soti incident accused remanded in custody for ten more days

• Discrimination against Dalits continue to stain Nepal’s fabric

• Soti incident premeditated, a team of provincial assembly members concludes

• Bodies of two Dalit men recovered from Bheri River
• Nepal caste attack turns deadly

The Case of Angira Pasi

• देवदहकी किशोरीको ‘बलात्कारपछि हत्या’

• शान्ति पासी भन्छिन्, ‘मेरी छोरीको हत्या भएको हो’

• पानी, प्रेम र बिहे अस्वीकार, तर दलितका छोरीमाथि बलात्कार

The Case of Ajit Mijar

• Inter-caste marriage allegedly ends in murder
• Ajit Mijar’s death: Not suicide but murder

The Case of Maya BK

• From Tika to Ashes - Sarita Pariyar

Other Cases

• Discrimination against Dalits still rife, continue to be left out of decision making process
• Death in Nepal, Eviction in Australia - Caste-Based Discrimination Prevalent at Home and Away
• Nepal: Ensure Justice for Caste-Based Killings

COVID and Caste-based discrimination

• भारतबाट फर्किएका दलित परिवारले पाएनन् क्वारेन्टिनमा बास

Organizations working on rights of Dalit community

• Samata Foundation
• Dalit NGO Federation
• Center for Dalit Women Nepal
• Nepal National Dalit Social Welfare Organization (NNDSWO)
• Association for Dalit Women’s Advancement in Nepal (ADWAN)
• Jagaran Media Center
• Feminist Dalit Organization
• Dalit Welfare Organization
• Dignity Initiative

History of the Caste System, General

• The Annihilation of Caste - Ambedkar