A Bibliography of Dalit Readings

The texts with a yellow highlight are available online for download through Google Scholar or with a University database access. This is not an indication of priority, just immediate availability. Additionally, there are other texts related to Kerala history, anti-colonialism, casteism, racism, and anti-Blackness under the Decolonized Malabar Readings. It is imperative that we study caste as well as racism to understand our position in both systems in the United States, South Asia, and the world at large.

The resources are not complete, and as we procure more articles we will add them to this document. If you are having issues accessing those resources, reach out to jyothisjames9@gmail.com and I can share them. But the best avenue is through a google search, a university system, or your local library .

Article on Roundtable India website

Articles in Hatred in the Belly: Politics behind the appropriation of Dr. Ambedkar’s writings

Gail Omvedt:

  • Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The NonBrahman Movement in Maharashtra" (Scientific Socialist Education Trust, 1966)
  • We Shall Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle (1979)
  • "Violence Against Women: New Movements And New Theories In India" (Kali for Women, 1991)
  • Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
  • Gender and Technology: Emerging Asian Visions (1994)
  • Dalits And The Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar And The Dalit Movement In Colonial India " (Sage India, 1994)
  • Dalit Visions: the Anticaste movement and Indian Cultural Identity (Orient Longman, 1995)
  • Growing Up Untouchable: A Dalit Autobiography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
  • Buddhism in India : Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (SageIndia, 2003)
  • "Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India " (Penguin, 2005)
  • Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals (New Delhi, Navayana, 2009)
  • "Understanding Caste: From Buddha To Ambedkar And Beyond" (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011)
  • Songs of Tukoba with Bharat Patankar she has published (translations)" (Manohar, 2012)
  • Jotirao Phule and the Ideology of Social Revolution in India
  • Land, caste, and politics in Indian states 

Eleanor Zelliot

  •  “Buddhism and Politics in Maharashtra,” in Donald E. Smith. ed., South Asian Politics and Religion. Princeton University, 1966. Paperback edition, 1969.
  • “Background of the Mahar Buddhist Conversion,” in Robert Sakai, ed., Studies on Asia, 1966. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1966.
  • “The Revival of Buddhism in India,” in Asia, 10. Winter 1968.
  • “Gujarat” in Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition., 1975.
  • “Learning the Use of Political Means — The Mahars of Maharashtra,” in Rajni Kothari, ed., Caste in Indian Politics.  New Delhi: Allied, 1970.  Reprinted 1973, 1985, 1991 (Orient Longman).
  • “The Nineteenth Century Background of Mahar and Non-Brahman Movements in Maharashtra,” in The Indian Economic and Social History Review VII: 3 (1970), 397-415.
  • “Literary Images of the Indian City,” in Richard G. Fox, ed., Urban India — Society, Space and Image.  Durham: Duke, 1971.
  • “Gandhi and Ambedkar — A Study in Leadership,” and “Bibliography on Untouchability,” in J. Michael Mahar, ed., The Untouchables in Contemporary India.  Tucson, University of Arizona, 1972: 69-95.  Reprinted as a pamphlet by Triratna Grantha Mala, Pune, 1983.  Also reprinted in From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, q.v. Reprinted and slightly edited in Caste in History:  Themes in Indian History,  edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube.  New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • “Dr. Ambedkar and the Mahars,” in Illustrated Weekly, XCII:14, April 2, 1972.
  • “The Medieval Bhakti Movement in History — An Essay on the Literature in English,” in Bardwell L. Smith, ed., Hinduism — New Essays in the History of Religions.  Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1976 (Numen Series), pp 143-168. Reprinted in 1982.
  • “Dalit Sahitya — The Historical Background” together with a translation (with Vidyut Bhagwat) of Maran Swast Hot Ahe (Death is Getting Cheaper) by Baburao Bagul from the Marathi, in Vagartha 12, 1976.
  • “The Psychological Dimension of the Buddhist Movement in India” in G.A. Oddie, ed., Religion in South Asia: Religious Conversion and Revival Movements in Medieval and Modern Times. New Delhi:, 1977.
  • “The Leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar,” in B.N. Pandey, ed., Leadership in South Asia.  (University of London symposium) New Delhi: Vikas, 1977.  Translated into Marathi as “Dr. Ambedkarance Netrutva” by Vasant Moon. Pune:  Sugawa Prakashan, 1986.
  • “The American Experience of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,” in R.D. Suman, ed., Dr. Ambedkar: Pioneer of Human Rights.  New Delhi: Bodhisattva Publications, Ambedkar Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1977.
  • “Dalit — New Cultural Context of an Old Marathi Word,” in Clarence Maloney ed., Language and Civilization Change in South Asia (Volume XI of Contributions to Asian Studies): pp. 77-97.  Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.  Reprinted in Contemporary India (Professor Sirsikar Felicitation Volume.)  Pune: Continental, 1982.
  • “Introduction to Dalit Poems,” with Gail Omvedt.  (Brief note, translations, and graphics.)  Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars X: 3 (1978) cover, pp. 2-10.
  • Maps and texts for the following plates in A Historical Atlas of South Asia, edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978: Revolt of 1857, Political Events of the Nationalist Period, the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League and other Political Parties, Fiction depicting South Asian Life, the Daily Press, Religious Revival and Reform, the Growth of Lahore and Calcutta.
  • “Religion and Legitimization in the Mahar Movement,” in Bardwell L. Smith, ed., Religion and Legitimization in South Asia. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.
  • “The Indian Rediscovery of Buddhism, 1855-1956,” in Studies in Pali and Buddhism, edited by A.K. Narain. (Jagdish Kashap Memorial Volume.)  New Delhi: D.K. Publishers’ Distributors, 1978, 2006.
  • “Journals of Indian History for the scholar, the student and the limited library.”  South Asia Library Notes and Queries (December 1978).
  • “Dalit Poetry” — a page of translations, with others, from the Marathi. Illustrated Weekly C:33 (1979), p. 15.
  • “Tradition and Innovation in the Contemporary Buddhist Movement in India,” with Joanna Macy, in Studies in the History of Buddhism, edited by  A.K. Narain.  Delhi:  B.R. Publication Corporation, 1980.
  • “British Nostalgia: The Long Look Back at Empire.” (annotated bibliography) South Asia Library Notes and Queries, March, 1980.
  • “Chokhamela and Eknath: Two Bhakti Modes of Legitimacy for Modern Change,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, XV: 1 & 2 (January-April 1980).  Reprinted in Tradition and Modernity in Bhakti Movements, ed., Jayant Lele.  Leiden:  E.J. Brill, 1981, pp 136-156.  Reprinted in Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India, edited by Aloka Parasher-Sen. New Dwlhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • “An Historical View of the Maharashtrian Intellectual and Social Change,” South Asian Intellectuals and Social Change: A Study of the Role of Vernacular-Speaking Intellectuals, ed. by Yogendra K. Malik.  Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, and New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1982.  pp. 18-88.
  • A Marathi Sampler: Varied Voices in Contemporary Marathi Short Stories and Poetry, Journal of South Asian Literature, XVII:1 (Winter, Spring 1982) pp. 1-169, ed.  by Eleanor Zelliot and Philip Engblom.
  • “A Medieval Encounter between Hindu and Muslim: Eknath’s Drama-poem Hindu-turk samvad. in Fred Clothey, ed., Images of Man: Religion and Historical Process in South Asia, Madras: New Era, 1982, pp 171-195.  Reprinted in India’s Islamic Traditions, 711-1750, edited by Richard M. Eaton.  New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003: pp. 64-82.
  • “Gupta History and Literature: A Bibliographic Essay,” with the assistance of Ann Whitfield, in Bardwell Smith, ed., Essays on Gupta Culture, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, dist. in the U.S. by South Asia Books, 1983.
  • “The World of Gundam Raul,” an essay on the 13th century Maharashtrian world for Anne Feldhaus, The Deeds of God in Rddhipur. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
  • “Buddhist Sects in Contemporary India: Identity and Organization,” Pp. 94-110 in Identity and Division in Cults and Sects in South Asia. Proceedings of the South Asia Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, I: 1980-1981 (Edited by Peter Gaeffke and David A. Utz). Philadelphia: South Asia Regional Studies, 1984.
  • with Jayant Karve: translation of Ghashiram Kotwal (Marathi) by Vijay Tendulkar.  Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1984. (New York production by Pan Asian Repertory Theater, 1985.)  2nd edition 1999, reprinted 2002.
  • Consultant on Maharashtrian figure on the Peoples of South Asia map National Geographic Magazine, December 1984.
  • “The Buddhist Literature of Modern Maharashtra,”  in “Minorities: on Themselves, Hugh van Skyhawk, Editor. (South Asia Digest of Regional Writing, vol. 11, 1985). South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, 1986.
  • “The Political Thought of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,” in Contemporary Indian Political Thought, edited by Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L. Deutsch.  Delhi:  Sage Publications, 1986.
  • “Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,” and with Anne Feldhaus, “Marathi Religions,” entries in Encyclopedia of Religion. Mircea Eliade, Editor.  New York:  Macmillan, 1986. Newly edited version, in press.
  • “Eknath’s Barude: the Sant as link between Cultures,” in The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India, ed. by Karine Schomer and W.H. McLeod.  Berkeley: Religious Studies Series; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987, pp 91-109.
  • “Four Radical Saints of Maharashtra” in Religion and Society in Maharashtra, edited by Milton Israel and N.K. Wagle. South Asian Papers No. 1. Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, 1987.
  • Introduction to Palkhi by D.B. Mokashi, tr. Philip Engblom.  Albany: New York State University Press, 1987, pp 31-55. Reprinted by Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1990.
  • “Untouchability” Encyclopedia of Asian History. Chief Editor: Ainslee Embree. N.Y. Charles Scribners Sons, 1988. Shorter entries: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, Republican Party.
  • Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: selections from his writings and comment for the revised edition of Sources of Indian Civilization, edited by Stephen Hay, New York:  Columbia University Press, 1988.  Note: the editor’s use of Bhim Rao Ambedkar is a Punjabi usage, not used in Maharashtra.  2nd edition, in press.
  • “Congress and the Untouchables.” In Congress and Indian Nationalism edited by Stanley Wolpert and Richard Sisson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Reprinted in Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, edited by Sekhar Bandhyopadhyay. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • “Dalit:  New Perspectives on India’s Untouchables,” in Philip Oldenburg, ed., India Briefing:  1991.  Boulder:  Westview Press, 1991.
  • Book: From Untouchable to Dalit:  Essays on the Ambedkar Movement.  New Delhi:  Manohar, 1992.  2nd edition with new introduction, 1996.  Reprinted 1998. 3rd edition 2001. Reprinted 2005.
  • “Buddhist Women of the Contemporary Maharashtrian Conversion Movement,” in José Cabezón, ed. for Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 1992.
  • Book: An Anthology of Dalit Literature (Poetry), edited by Mulk Raj Anand and Eleanor Zelliot.  New Delhi:  Gyan, 1992.  (A wretchedly printed thing that I am hiding from almost everyone.)
  • “Mahar” and “Chitpavan Brahman” in Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. III (South Asia). Volume editor Paul Hockings. Boston:  G.K. Hall, 1992.
  • “Dr. Ambedkar through Western Eyes” in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: The Emancipator of the Oppressed, edited by K.N. Kadam. Bombay:  Popular Prakashan, 1993.
  • “New Voices of the Buddhists of India” in Dr. Ambedkar, Buddhism and Social Change, edited by A.K. Narain and D.C. Ahir. Delhi:  B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1994: pp 195-207.
  • Translator.  “Daya Pawar’s ‘The Buddha’” in Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry. New Delhi, 1994.
  • “Should We Study Caste in Order to Abolish it?”  in Dalit Movement Today, edited by Sandeep Pendse. Bombay: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, 1994.
  • “The Folklore of Pride:  Three Components of Contemporary Dalit Belief,” in Folk Culture, Folk Religion and Oral Traditions as a Component in Maharashtrian Culture.  Edited by Gunther D. Sontheimer. University of Heidelberg, 1996.
  • “Cokhamela: Piety and Protest,” in Bhakti Religion in North India:  Community, Identity and Political Action, ed. David Lorenzen.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp 212-220.
  • “The Householder Saints of Maharashtra” in Studies in Early Modern Indo-Aryan Languages, Literature and Culture. Edited by  Alan W. Entwistle, Carol Salomon et al.  New Delhi: Manohar, 1999, pp 417-426.
  • “The Dalit Movement,” in the Dalit International Newsletter, edited by John Webster.  I:1 (February 1996).
  • “Stri Dalit Sahitya:  The New Voice of Women Poets,” in Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion, ed. Anne Feldhaus.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1996 pp 65-93. Illus.
  • “The Poetry of Dalit Women” in Culture, Religion and Society:  Essays in Honour of Richard W. Taylor,  Saral K. Chatterji and Hunter P. Mabry, editors, published for the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore by ISPCK, Delhi, 1996.
  • “A Bibliographic Essay on Women in Maharashtra,” in Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society, edited by Anne Feldhaus.  Albany: State University of New York, 1998.
  • “Dalit Literature – Twenty-five years of Protest? of Progress?” with Veena Deo. Journal of South Asian Literature, xxix:2:41-67 (1994).
  • “The Religious Imagination of Maharashtrian Women Bhaktas,” in Western India: History, Society and Culture, edited by Shrikant Paranjpe, Raja Dixit and C.R. Das.  (Dr. Arvind Deshpande Felicitation Volume). Kolhapur: Itihas Shikshak Mahamandal, 1997 pp 91-108.
  • “Ovi” and “Tamasha” entries in South Asian Folklore:  An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus, Sarah Diamond, editors.   New York, London: Routledge, 2003.
  • “Fifty Years of Dalit Politics,” in India: Fifty Years of Independence: Assessment and Prospects, Yogendra Malik and Ashok Kapur, editors.  New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation, 1998.
  • “Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, in The Biographical Dictionary of Greater India, edited by Henry Scholberg. New Delhi: Promilla and Co., 1998.
  • “Religious Leadership among Maharashtrian Buddhist Women” in Women’s Buddhism; Buddhism’s Women. edited by Ellison Banks Findly.  Sumerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
  •  “Ordination” with Ingrid Klass  and “Buddhism: Modern Movements”, in the Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, Serenity Young, editor. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998.
  • “Roots of Dalit Consciousness,” in Seminar 471, edited by Harsh Sethi and Tejbir Singh. November 1998:28-32.
  •  “Women in the Homes of the Saints”,  in Home, Family and Kinship in Maharashtra, edited by Irina Glushkova and Rajendra Vora.  New Delhi: Oxford, 1999, pp 89-100.
  •  “Dr. Ambedkar Speaks to Government”, pp 261 – 265, and “The American Experience of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar,” pp 293-299, in Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: A Biography of His Vision and Ideas, Verinder Grover, editor. New  Delhi: Deep and Deep, 1998.
  • “The Dalit Movement,” in the Dalit International Newsletter 1:1 & 2 (1996).
  • “New Books on Dalits” in the Dalit International Newsletter 4:2 (June 1999); 6:2 (June 2001); 8:2 (June 2003); 10:2 (June 2005).
  • “The Untouchable Women Saint-Poets of Maharashtra,” In The Banyan Tree: Essays on Early Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages,  edited by Mariola Offredi. New Delhi: Manohar, 2000, pp 273-282.
  • “Sant Sahitya and Dalit Movements,” in Intersections: Socio-cultural Trends in Maharashtra, edited by Meera Kosambi.  Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2000, pp 187-193.
  • ”Women Saints in Medieval Maharashtra,” in Faces of the Feminine in  Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India, edited by Mandakranta Bose.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp 192-200.
  • “Dr. Ambedkar and the Empowerment of Women,” for the conference on “Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in Retrospect.” Jawaharlal Nehru University, organized by S.K. Thorat, August 2002.  Published in Gender and Caste,edited by Anupama Rao. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2004.
  • “B.R. Ambedkar and the Search for a Meaningful Buddhism,” in Reconstructing the World:  B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India. Edited by  Surendra Jondhale and Johannes Beltz. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004: pp. 18-34.
  • “The Meaning of Ambedkar,” for Dalit Identity and Politics, edited by Ghanshyam Shah. Delhi, Thousand Oaks: Sage,  2001.
  • ”Experiments in Dalit Education” (Pre-Independence)” in Education and the Disprivileged, edited by S. Bhattacharya. Hyderabad: Orient Longmans, 2002.
  • “Dalit Tradition and Dalit Consciousness” in Democratic Government in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity, edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal and Sudha Pai.  New Delhi: Sage, 2001. (Insert “not” in the last sentence.)
  • “History of Untouchables in Poona City”  for a volume in Marathi on Pune edited by Aroon Tikekar.  In English: “The History of Dalits in Pune,” in The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay.  N.S. Vol. 74 for 1999:211-239 (2000).
  • “Untouchables, Purity and Pollution,” for the 8th International Conference on Maharashtrian Studies , held in Sydney, Australia in 1999, edited by Jim Masselos.
  • “Introduction,” “Glossary” and “Biographical Notes” for Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography, by Vasant Moon, translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. New Delhi:  Sage, 2002.
  • “Kipling’s Kim in the Classroom,” in Asianetwork Exchange VIII;1(Fall 2000), pp 24-25.
  • “Self Critical Honesty: The Writing of Urmilla Pawar,” in Manushi No. 122. Jan-Feb 2001. Introduction to Chauti Bhint (The Fourth Wall) by Urmilla Pawar, p. 23.
  • “Ahilyabai Holkar” in Manushi No. 124.
  • “Dr. Ambedkar and the Constitution” for India’s Constitution at Fifty, a conference called by  D.R. SarDesai. Published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of  Bombay, 77:78, (2002-3)
  • Translation with Vimal Thorat of “Whirlwind ” by Datta Bhagat, in An Anthology of Modern Indian Drama, edited by G.P. Deshpande. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2000.
  • ” Bombay/Mumbai and the Ambedkar Movement: Past and Present” in Thinking Social Science in India: Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner, edited by Sujata Patel, et al. New Delhi: Sage, 2002: pp.392-404 .
  • “The Search for Cokhamela,” The Dalit (March-April 2002): 35-37.
  • “Immortalizing Babasaheb”. an interview with Meena Kandasamy, The Dalit (May-June 2002): 40-43.
  • Foreword and Comments for Detlef Kantowsky, Buddhists in India Today, translated from the German by Hans-Georg Tuerstig. New Delhi: Manohar, 2003.
  • Sant Cokhamela: vividh darshan, edited with Va. La. Manjul.  Pune: Sugawa Prakashan, 2002.  Included are Marathi translations of my articles: “Cokhamelayaca shodh.”   “Cokhamela ani Eknath.” “Soyrabai ani Nirmala.” (not translated by ez)
  • “Ashok Kelkar and Dalit Literature” for  The Bulletin of Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute. Volumes 62 and 63 (2002 and 2003).  Professor Ashok R. Kelkar Felicitation Volume. Published in 2004. 
  • “A Maharashtrian Buddhist Family: The Kambles of Pune” in Family Diversity in India: Patterns, Practices and Ethos, edited by P.K. Roy.  New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2003.
  • “Relating to the Voices of India’s Untouchables” in the AsiaNetwork Exchange XI:3 (Spring 2004.) Watch for correction in the following issue.
  • “A Note on Bhakti Poetry,” in The Oxford India Ramanujan, edited by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004:1-8
  • “Caste in Contemporary India” in Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture and Practice. Edited by Robin     Rinehart.  Publisher: ABC/Clio. 2004: 243-271.
  • “Untouchability” for the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004
  • “Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar”, entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, 2004.
  • “Untouchables (Dalits) for the Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Pub., 2004.
  • Book: Untouchable Saints: An Indian Phenomenon, edited with Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005.
  • Book: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the Untouchable Movement.  New Delhi: Blumoon Books, 2004
  • “Ambedkar Abroad”. Sixth Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Annual Lecture. Jawaharlal  Nehru University, New Delhi.” 2004.
  • “The Importance of Ambedkar’s world view to India’s social progress.”  Fourth Manchester Ambedkar Memorial Lecture,  Manchester, U.K., October 10, 2005.
  • “Dr. Ambedkar’s Path to Buddhism: a Marga to Navayana?”  in Marga: Ways of Liberation, Empowerment and Social Change in Maharashtra, edited by M. Naito, I.Shima and H. Kotani.  New Delhi: Manohar, 2008.
  • “Dalits” for the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.  Editor in Chief: John H. Moore.  Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.
  • “Understanding Dr. B.R. Ambedkar”, Religion Compass. Online Resource from Blackwell Publishing, 2008
  • “Dalit Literature, language and identity”, in Language in South Asia, edited by Braj Kachru, Yamuna Kachru and S.N. Sridhar.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008: pp. 450-465.
  • “The Early Voices of Untouchables: the Bhakti Saints” in From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchables, Identity and Politics in Early Modern India, edited by Mikael Aktor.  Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, electronic and print, 2010.
  • “India’s Dalits: Racism and Contemporary Change”, 2010 ?  bi-annual Global Dialogue Journal. Issue on Race and Racism. 2011.  Edited by Paul Theodoulou. Cyprus.
  • “Pariah”: Global.  In the Encyclopedia of Global Studies
  • “My Experience with Caste” in Caste in Life; Experiencing Inequalities,ed. by D. Shyam Babu and R.S.Khare. Delhi: Pearson, 2011.
  • “Dalit Initiatives in Education.” in State, Society and Education in Comparative Perspective. Edited by S. Srinivas Rao and Parimala V. Rao. New Delhi: Zakir Husaain Centre for Educational Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University,  2012?
  • “Connected Peoples: Pilgrimage in the Ambedkar Movment”  Voice of Dalit 4:1, 2011.

Dr. BR Ambedkar:

  • Administration and Finance of the East India Company
  • Ancient Indian Commerce
  • Castes in India; Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
  • Untouchables or the Children of India's Ghetto
  • Essay on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social
  • Essay on Untouchables and Untouchability: Political
  • Essay on Untouchables and Untouchability: Religious
  • Philosophy Of Hinduism
  • Buddha or Karl Marx
  • Riddles in Hinduism
  • The Untouchables and the Pax Britannica
  • Manu and the Shudras
  • Annihilation of Caste
  • Who were the Shudras ?
  • The Untouchables: Who were they and why they became Untouchables?
  • Which is worse? Slavery or Untouchability
  • Buddha and his Dhamma

Jotirao Phule

Collected Works of Mahatma Jotirao Phule

The poetry of Savitribai Phule

M.S.S. Pandian

  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present
  • The Image Trap: M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics
  • Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Nanchilnadu, 1880–1939
  • Muslims, Dalits and Fabrications of History: Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 12
  • “One step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere”
  • “Dalit assertion in Tamil Nadu: an exploratory note”
  • “Culture and subaltern consciousness: An aspect of MGR phenomenon”
  • “Notes on the Transformation of'Dravidian'Ideology: Tamilnadu, c. 1900-1940”

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Sanober Umar

  • Beyond Whiteness: Rethinking Aryan Nationalisms in Multicultural Canada
  • Racializing Subalternity: Space, Caste, and Gender in Muslim Mohallas of Lucknow (1947-1993)
  • Constructing the “Citizen Enemy”-The Impact of the Enemy Property Act of 1968 on India's Muslims
  • The Identity of Language and the Language of Erasure

Shailaja Paik 

  • Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India 
  • Building Bridges: Articulating Dalit and African American Women’s Solidarity 
  • Refashioning Futures: Dalit Women’s Education and Empowerment in Maharashtra: Perspectives from Sri Lanka to Nepal
  • The rise of new Dalit women in Indian historiography
  • Mangala bansode and the social life of tamash: Caste, sexuality, and discrimination in modern Maharashtra
  • Forging a New Dalit Womanhood in Colonial Western India: Discourse on Modernity, Rights, Education, and Emancipation

Sujatha Gidla

Ants Among Elephants

Aloysius Irudayam, Jayshree P. Mangubhai, and Joel G. Lee

Dalit Women Speak Out  (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p_2PDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=Dalit+Women+Speak+Out+&ots=Yog1NnDGE1&sig=JjYPz4LvXLk5FmOega9yePvKrV0#v=onepage&q=Dalit%20Women%20Speak%20Out&f=false)

No Alphabet In Sight Edited by K. Satyanarayana & Susie Tharu

Dalit Studies edited by Ramnarayan S. Rawat, K. Satyanarayana

Kerala scholar/s activists

Sunny Kapicadu’s writings on Roundtable India website

Nidhin Donald writings on Roundtable India website

Sanal Mohan

  • August 2015. Modernity of Slavery: Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  • Creation of Social Space through Prayers Among Dalits in Kerala, India, in Prayer and Politics (ed.) Peter van der Veer, Routledge, London, 2017
  • ‘Social Space, Civil Society and Dalit Agency in Twentieth Century Kerala’ in a Dalit Studies (ed) Ramnarayan Rawat, K.Satyanarayana, Duke University Press, 2016
  • ‘Religion, Social Space and Identity: Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Making of Cultural Boundaries in Twentieth Century Kerala’,  in Subhadra Channa Mitra and Joan P. Mencher (ed) Life as a Dalit, New Delhi, Sage, 2013.
  • ‘Caste and Accumulation of Capital’ in Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing, M. Dasan (et al) New Delhi, Oxford University Press,2012
  • ‘Narrativizing the History of Slave Suffering’ in K.Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu, eds. No Alphabet in Sight New Dalit Writing From South India  Dossier I; Tamil and Malayalam. New Delhi, Penguin Books,  2011pp534-555, New Delhi.  
  • "Searching for old Histories":Social Movements and the Project of Writing History in Twentieth-Century Kerala  in Raziuddin Aquil and Partha Chatterjee (ed). History in the Vernacular New Delhi, Permanent Black 2008 pp 357-390
  • Dynamics of Social transformation in a Kerala billage: A case Study of Naduvannur Village in Kerala,in K.N. Nair and Vineetha Menon (ed). Social Change in Kerala; Insights from Micro Level Studies, Delhi Daanish Books,2007.
  • ‘Theorising History in the Context of Social Movements: Challenges to the Reigning Paradigms of History?,’ inFelix Wilfred and Jose D. Maliekkal (eds) Historiography Today  (Madras University, Chennai, 2002), pp 99-110.
  • ‘Caste and the Problem of Accumulation of Capital’,in T.M. Yesudasan (ed)Dalit Svatvavum Adhikarathinte Prasnavum (Dalit Identity and the Problem of Power), Kottayam, Almond Books 1998.
  •  World System Theory in TR Venugopalan (ed) History and Theory, National Seminar Papers, (Trichur: Department of History, Government College: 1997)
  • 2017 Women and Religiosity: Dalit Christianity in Kerala, Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 52, Issue No. 42-43, 28 October 2017,pp50-57.
  • 2015 Creation of Social Space through Prayers Among Dalits in             Kerala, India, Journal of Religious and Political Practice,                       DOI:10.1080/20566093.2016.1085735
  • ‘Religion, Social Space and Identity: Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Making of Cultural Boundaries in Twentieth Century Kerala’, South Asia n.s. Vol. XXVIII. no.1, April, 2005. pp.35-63.
  • ‘Narrativising Oppression and Suffering: Theorizing Slavery’, South Asia Research (Vol. 26 No1, February, 2006, pp.5-40)
  • ‘Dalit Discourse and the Evolving New Self: Contest and Strategies’, Review of Development and Change. Vol. IV. No.1 January-June 1999 1-24 Madras institute of Development Studies.

TM Yesudasan

 “Towards a Prologue to Dalit Studies”

Gopal Guru

  • Humiliation: Claims and Context, New Delhi, OUP, 2009.
  •  ‘Social Justice’, in Pratap Bhanu Mehata and Niraja Gopal Jayal (Eds.), Companion to Indian Politics, OUP, Delhi, 2010.
  • ‘Constitutional Justice: Positional and Cultural’, in ed., Rajeev Bhargava, Politics and Philosophy of Indian Constitution, OUP, Delhi, 2008.
  • ‘20th Century Discourse on Social Justice: a view from Bahishkrut Baharat’, in ed., Sabhyasachi Bhattacharya, History, Political thought in Modern India and Social Science, New Delhi, Oxford, 2007.
  • ‘Dalits in Pursuit of Modernity’, in Romila Thapar (Ed.), India another Millennium, New Delhi, Penguin-Viking, 2000.
  • ‘The Idea of India: Desi, Derivative and Beyond’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXXVI, No. 37, 10 September 2011
  • ‘Liberal Democracy in India and the Dalit Critique’, Social Research, 78:1, Spring, 2011, pp. 99-122
  • ‘Archaeology of Untouchability’, Economic and Political Weekly, September 2009.
  • ‘Dalit Movement in Mainstream Sociology’, Economic and Political Weekly, No. 14, April, 3, 1993.
  • ‘How Egalitarian are Social Sciences in India?’ Economic and Political Weekly, Dec. 14, 2002.

Ajay Sekhar

  • Writing in the dark : a collection of Malayalam Dalit poems
  • Sahodaran Ayyappan : towards a democratic future life and select works
  • The Broken Buddha of Pattanam, Boddhisatvas in Disguise and the Silent Siddha of Kayikara: Iconology, Histories and Textuality of Buddhist Idols in Kerala

Carmel Christy KJ

  • “Janu and Saleena Narrating Life

Dominant caste academics writing about caste privilege 

Shefali Chandra:

  • The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
  • Women Studies Quarterly 42(2) 2014. Special issue on “Solidarities”. Edited and contributed an introduction with Saadia Toor.
  • ‘India Will Change You Forever: Hinduism, Islam and Whiteness since 9/11’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40.2 (Winter 2015) 487-512.
  • ‘The World’s Largest Dynasty: Caste, Sexuality and the Manufacture of Indian “Democracy”’ Dialectical Anthropology 38(2) 2014.
  • 'Global India and the Divergent Temporalities of South Asia’ in Antoinette Burton ed., The Feedback Loop: Historians Theorize the Links Between Teaching and Research, American Historical Review, 2013 pp. 29-34.
  • ‘Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality and the Agenda of Transnational Studies,’ Feminist Studies, 37.1 (Spring 2011), pp. 127-153.

Dia DeCosta

  • Academically translated caste innocence - http://www.raiot.in/academically-transmitted-caste-innocence/

Ajantha Subramanian

  • “Making merit: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the social life of caste”
  • The Caste of Merit

Sonja Thomas

  • Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. Global South Asia series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
  • “Cowboys and Indians: Indian Priests in Rural Montana.” Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Asian Diaspora. Lili Shi and Yadira Perez Hazel, guest editors. Volume 47, Numbers 1 & 2, (Spring/Summer 2019): pp. 110-131.
  • Can Syrian Christians be Black? Racialized Discrimination in Global South Asia," ALA: A Kerala Studies Blog June 30th, 2019. Issue 10 - Can Syrian Christians be Black? Racialized Discrimination in ...ala.keralascholars.org › issues › issue-10 › can-syrian-chri...
  • "The Women's Wall in Kerala, India and Brahmanical Patriarchy," Feminist Studies 45, No1 (2019): pp. 253-260.
  • “This is America” and the Global Erasure of Black Vernacular Traditions” ASAP/Journal: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Open-access platform, reviews. August 2018 - http://asapjournal.com/this-is-america-and-the-global-erasure-of-black-vernacular-traditions-sonja-thomas/
  • “Education as Empowerment? Gender and the Human Right to Education in Postcolonial India” in Human Rights in Postcolonial India. V.G. Julie Rajan and Om Dwivedi, eds. New York: Routledge, 2016.
  • “The Tying of the Ceremonial Wedding Thread: A Feminist Analysis of “Ritual” and
  • “Tradition” Among Syro-Malabar Catholics in India,” Journal of Global Catholicism, 1, No. 1 (September 2016): 104-116
  • Podcast on Indian missionary priests in Montana with The East is a Podcast: Indians and Cowboys
  • (out for review/to be published soon)
  • “Studying up in World Christianity: An Feminist Analysis of Caste and Settler Colonialism” Journal of World Christianity 
  • “The Ingredients of Casteism: Holy Week and Syrian Christian Food Practices in Kerala, India” South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies.  (Submitted, under review).
  • “Syrian Christians and Dominant Caste Hindus” Michelle Voss Roberts and Chad Bauman, editors.  Routledge.  (Invited submission for the Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations.  In production).

Corrine Dempsey

  • Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India

Philips, Amali.  

  • “Gendering Colour: Identity, Femininity and Marriage in Kerala.”  

Anthropologica 46, no. 2 (2004): 253–72.  

  • ———.  “Stridhanam: Rethinking Dowry, Inheritance and Women’s Resistance Among

the Syrian Christians of Kerala.”  Anthropologica 45, no. 2 (2003): 245–64.

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