Dalit Literature

Dalit Literature

Ø Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based oppression and discrimination for centuries.

Ø The term ‘Dalit’ literally means ‘oppressed’

Ø Dalit literature emerged in the colonial and post-colonial period, with Jyotirao Phule's Gulamgiri, published in 1873, being a seminal work highlighting the plight of the Untouchables in India.

Ø Numerous authors, such as Sharankumar Limbale, Namdeo Dhasal, and Bama, have contributed to the Dalit literary movement

Ø Dalit feminism, with the autobiographies and testimonios of Dalit women authors emphasizing the intersection of caste, class, and gender in the context of social exclusion.

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Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (1827-90)

Social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer born into the Mali caste in Poona of Maharashtra. He established Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth Seekers) to attain equal rights for people from lower castes. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791) inspired him. In 1888, Phule was given the title Mahatma (Great Soul). His wife, Savitri Bhai Pule, is one of the first female teachers in India.

1.   Gulamgiri (Slavery) 1873- best known work-attack on India’s caste system, it compares the position of members of the lower castes to that of enslaved people in the United States. Composed in Marathi on reinterpretation of Hindu myths, as a dialogic between Phule (reformer) and Dhondiba (Shudra) in 16 prose parts and 4 poems. Phule dedicated Gulamgiri (Slavery) to “the good people of the United States” applauding their efforts to abolish Negro slavery.

B.R. (Bhimrao Ramji) Ambedkar (1891-1956)- Born of a Dalit Mahar family, in Mhow, Madya Pradesh. He is a social reformer and Chairman of drafting committee, in writing the Constitution of India. He is referred as Babasaheb. Received Bharat Ratna in 1990. Mooknayak (the leader of the voiceless) is his news paper

1.   Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development 1916- paper read by him at an anthropology seminar in New York in 1916. later published in ‘Indian Antiquary’ in May 1917. He argued that the oppressive customs: sati, enforced widowhood and child marriages maintains the strict endogamy (marriage within the caste); and said "the superposition of endogamy on exogamy means creation of caste"

2.   Annihilation of Caste      (1936)- un-delivered speech written for Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Break Up of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist organization based in Lahore, who invited Dr.Ambedkar to deliver a speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. The organisers found some of the content to be objectionable towards the orthodox Hindu religion, so they wrote to Ambedkar seeking the removal of sections which they found, in their words, "unbearable." Ambedkar declared in response that he "would not change a comma" of his text.

In July 1936, Gandhi wrote articles under the title "A Vindication Of Caste" in his weekly journal (Harijans) in which he defended the right of Ambedkar to deliver his speech and condemned the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal for rejecting it because the Mandal already knew Ambedkar was a staunch critic of Hinduism and caste system.  

Ambedkar replied to Gandhi's comments in 1937 work titled Annihilation of Caste: With a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi.

In 2014, an annotated edition was released by Navayana, a New Delhi–based publishing house, with an introduction by Arundhati Roy titled "The Doctor and the Saint"

3.   Who were the Shudras? 1946- dedicated to Jyothirao Phule

4.   Buddha or Karl Marx­ 1956- a speech delivered by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar before the delegates of the Fourth Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the year 1956

5.   The Buddha and His Dhamma 1957- a treatise on Buddha's life and philosophy. Published posthumously.

6.   Riddles in Hinduism (1987)

7.   Waiting for a Visa (1990)- autobiographical document written during the period of 1935–36, published posthumously. It is a collection of 6 anecdotes related to his experiences with untouchability.

Mulk Raj Anand 1905-2004 (see Indian Literature)

1.   Untouchable 1935

2.   An Anthology of Dalit Literature 1992 - edited by Mulk Raj Anand and Eleanor Zelliot. Translations of Marati Dalit writings, mainstreamed the Dalit Literature in India.

Annabhau Sathe 1920-1969– original name Dr. Tukaram Bhaurao Sathe. Indian folk poet, writer, and social worker from the state of Maharashtra. He wrote 35 novels¸15 collections short stories, a play, a travelogue on Russia, 12 screenplays, and 10 ballads in the Marathi language.

1.   He is regarded as the founding father of Dalit Literature

2.   Fakira 1959- story of a stout young guy, named Fakira, crusading for the rights of people of his community and religious practice or ritual called 'Jogin' in the British Raj and his enmity towards the evil forces in the village. He became icon to Dalits, especially Mang, or Matang community,

 

Baby (Kondiba) Kamble (1929-2012)- Dalit feminist, Born into Mahar community in Pune, Maharastra. Married to Kondiba at the age of 13, had ten children, three of them died during childhood. She kept her writings secret for nearly 20 years.

1.   Jine Amuche 1986 (Trans: Prisons We Broke, 2008) – autobiography/memoir, translated into English by Maya Pandit. About oppressive conditions (poverty, hunger, superstition, patriarchy) faced by Maher Dalit women in Maharashtra.  It is probably the first autobiography of a Dalit woman not only in Marathi but in any Indian language.

2.   Man Bolata ('The Mind Speaks')- Poetry in Marathi.

 

Daya Pawar (Dagdu Maruti Pawar) – 1935-1996­ Indian Marathi language author and poet

1.   Baluta 1978- autobio­graphy- written in the Marathi language. a story told by Dagdu Pawar to the more literate Daya Pawar, both being personas of the author. According to Kalita, Baluta "introduced autobiographical writing" to Dalit literature. He gave expression to the oppression of the Dalits through his verse. ”The hand was crushed under a stone, yet no outcry was heard. How many generations of imprisonment? Who created this prison?”

2.   “Chi Maatichi Chittarkatha": A collection of stories and poems about Dalit life.

 

Dr. Kumud Sonkuwar Pawde (1938-)- Sanskrit Pandit

born into a Mahar Dalit family in Maharashtra. Later she became a Buddhist. She is the first Ambedkarite scholar of Sanskrit. She is a founder member of the National Federation of Dalit Women.

1.   Antahsphot or Outburst 1981 – her autobiography- discusses the issue of exploitation of Dalit Women

2.   “The Story of My Sanskrit” -essay, and it is a chapter in ‘Antahsphot’. It discusses the challenges she faced in her pursuit of learning Sanskrit.

a.      

Urmila Pawar (1945-- )

born in Adgaon village of Ratnagiri district in the Konkan district of Bombay Presidency (now the state of Maharashtra)

1.   Aaydan (Marati) (Trans: The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs)- autobiography - first of its kind account by a dalit woman, won her acclaim and numerous accolades. The book was later translated into English by Maya Pandit. Aaydan refers to the bamboo baskets that Dalit women wove for income.

2.   "Kavach" and "A Childhood Tale"- her famous stories

3.   Motherwit: A collection of short stories

 

Arjun Dangle (1945-  )- born in Mumbai, A founder member of the militant Dalit youth organization, the Dalit Panthers

1.   Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature (1992) - first ever attempt to anthologize Dalit writings in English. It is an anthology consisting of four parts, i.e., poetry, autobiographical extracts, short stories, and essays and speeches. Title from Bandhu Madhav’s story about a Mahar forced to eat stale bread, falls ill and before he dies, he tells his grandson to get education that takes away poisoned bread from the mouths of Mahars. 

2.   Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories

3.   Dalit Literature: Past, Present and Future- essay

4.   Dalit Vidroh: collection of articles 1998

 

Namdeo (Laxman) Dhasal 1949-2014- Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Pune, Maharashtra. He founded the Dalit Panther movement in 1972 along with J V Pawar, Arjun Dangle and Raja Dhale (group of Mahar writers). (based on American Black Panther Movement) Padma Shri in 1999 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2004.

1.   Golpitha (1973)- His first collection of poetry in Marati

2.   A Current of Blood 2019- poetry- in English     

3.   Dilip Chitre translated a selection of Dhasal's poems into English under the title Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underground Poems 1972-2006

4.   Ambedkari Chalwal (1981)- his prose work- essays on Ambedkar Movement

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OM PRAKASH VALMIKI (1950-2013)-

Born in Barla in the Muzzafarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Prominent figure in Hindi Dalit writers.

1.   Joothan: A Dalit’s life (1997)- Joothan eats the scraps of food left on plated intended for garbage/animals. Detailed description of Chuhra community. Published in Hindi, translated into English by Arun Prabha Mukherjee in 2003.

2.   Three collections of poetry:

• Sadiyon Ka Santaap (1989),
• Bas! Bahut Ho Chuka (1997), and
• Ab Aur Nahin (2009).

3.   two collections of short stories,

• Salaam (2000), and
• Ghuspethiye (2004).

4.   Dalit Sahitya Ka Saundaryshaastra (2001)

5.   Safai Devata (2009)- play- history of the Valmiki community

6.   Do Chera' (a play)

 

Kancha Ialaiah (1952-    )

born in the village of Papaiahpet of Chennaraopet mandal, Warangal district in present-day Telangana. Ilaaih suffixed 'Shepherd' to his name symbolically, as he comes from a shepherding family

1.   Why I Am Not a Hindu: A Sudra critique of Hindutva philosophy, culture and political economy (1996). 

2.   God as Political Philosopher: Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism 2001

3.   Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism 2004

4.   Untouchable God: A Novel on Caste and Race 2011

5.   In 2016, Ilaiah gave a controversial remark that vegetarianism is anti-nationalism.

6.   In 2017, He wrote a controversial book “komatollu - samajika smugglerlu”

 

Sharankumar Limbale (1956-….)- Marathi Writer

1.   Akkarmashi 1984 (Trans: The Outcaste 2003)- autobiography, considered a landmark in Dalit literature.  “My mother is an untouchable, while my father is a high caste from one of the privileged classes of India. Mother lives in a hut, father in a mansion. Father is a landlord; mother is landless. I am an akkarmashi (half-caste). I am condemned, branded illegitimate.”

2.   Hindu: A Novel- caste and religious issues

3.   Pradnyasurya-- Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar

4.   Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations (2004)-   discusses how Dalit anubhava (experiences) should take precedence over anuman (speculation).

 

BAMA (1958-…..): (Bama Faustina Soosairaj)

is a Tamil Dalit feminist, teacher and novelist. Born as Faustina Mary Fatima Rani in Periyar family of Tamilnadu. Susairaj is her father.

 

1.   Karukku: An Autobiography (1992)­ -The first autobiography by a Dalit woman writer in Tamil. About the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christian women in Tamil Nadu. Karukku refers to Palmyra leaves with sharp edges on both its sides. Translated into English by Lakshmi Holmstrom

2.   Sangati or Events (1994­)- novel, based on two protagonists: Maariamma and Maikkanni. translated to English by Laxmi Holmstrom; translated to Telugu by Dalit writer and activist Joopaka Subhadra

3.   Vanmam or Vandetta (2002)- novel, about the caste rivalry  ignited by Naicker (dominant landlords), between Dalit communities: Pallars (Hindu) and the Parayars (Christian) of Kandampatti village. translated into English by Malini Seshadri

4.   Three short story collections:

o  Kusumbukkaran (1996)

o  Oru Tattvum Erumaiyum (2003),

o  'Kandattam'(2009)

 

Sharmila Rege (1964-2013)- born in Pune, Maharastra

1.   Caste and gender: the violence against women in India 1996

2.   Sociology of Gender: The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Thought 2003

3.   Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios (2006)­-collection of a few Marathi Dalit women’s biographies

 

Gogu Shyamala (1969-   )

born in Peddemul village in Ranga Reddy district (now part of Telangana)

1.   Tataki Wins Again & Brave Heart Badeyya 2008

2.   Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...(2012)- short stories- landmark in Telangana Dalit literature in translation. 

Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (1984-    ) - Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

1.     two collections of poetry, 

a.     Touch (2006)  

b.     Ms. Militancy (2010)

2.     A Dalit History 2017- essays- (with Gopal Guru)     

3.     The Gypsy Goddess 2014- novel- Kilvenmani massacre of Dalit agricultural laborers in 1968.

4.     When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife 2017- novel- dealing with marital abuse

5.     Exquisite Cadavers 2019- novel

6.     AYYANKALI: A Dalit leader of Organic Protest, a biography of Ayyankali, a dalit leader in Kerala (co-authored with M. Nisar)

7.     Meena made her acting debut in the 2014 Malayalam film Oraalppokkam.

 

Kishor Shantabai Kale (1970–2007)- Marathi writer

1.   Kolhatyacha Por (son of a kolhati) 1994, in Marathi, (Trans: Against all odds) by Sandhya Pandey

 

Shantabai Kamble

1.   Majhya Jalmachi Chittarkatha (Trans: The Kaleidoscopic Story of My Life,1983)- Dalit women’s autobiography

 

Janabai Girhe

1.   Maranakala (Death Pains, 1992),

 

Kaushalya Baisantry- Hindi writer

1.   Dohra Abhshaap (Twice Cursed,1999),

 

Susheela Takbhaure

1.   Shikanje ka Dard (The Pain of the Trap, 2011)

 

Akkineni Kutumba Rao’s

1.   Sorrajjem(1992).

 

Boya Jangaiah’s

1.   Jathara (1998).

 

Mohan Rao’s

1.   Khaki Bathukulu (1990).

 

Kalyan Rao’s

1.   Untouchable Spring (Telugu: Antarani Vasantham 2000)

 

Dr Y.B. Satyanarayana- Dalit academician, activist, writer from Telangana State, and co-founder of the Centre for Dalit Studies.

1.   My father Baliah (2011)- saga of three generations of the author’s family. The memoir begins with author’s great-grandfather, Narisah belonged to the leather-working, “untouchable caste” Madigas, losts his land to feudal lords which gifted by Nizam and migrated to Vangapalle in Karimnagar district of Telangana. Rajinikanth is seen reading the book in the opening scene of his latest blockbuster 'Kabali'.

 

Anupama Rao

1.   The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (2009)

 

Baburao Bagul (1930-2008) – Marathi Dalit writer

1.   "Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti" (When I Hid My Caste): collection of short stories that explores the brutal realities of caste discrimination.

2.   "Maran Swasta Hot Ahe" (Death is Getting Cheaper): collection of stories.

 

Vasant Moon (1932-2002)

1.   Vasti (in Marathi) 1995- translated as ‘Growing Up Untouchable in India’ by Gail Omvedt- autoethnography. the first Dalit autobiography to be published in English

2.   Editor of 17 volumes of “Dr B R Ambedkar’s Writings and Speeches” in English

 

M C Raj- Dalit scholar from Karnataka

1.   Dalitology: The Book of the Dalit people (2001)

 

Imayam (pen name of V. Annamalai) (born 1964) -Tamil novelist, Published 8 novels

1.   Koveru Kazhudaigal. (Translated as 'Beasts of Burden' in 2001)- about a family of Dalit launderers who wash the clothes of other Dalit people, receiving grain and other food in return. About the life of the woman, Arokkyam

2.   Arumugam 1999- second novel- story of a little boy Armugam, translated into English by D Krishna Ayyar 

3.   Sedal 2006- deals with Dalit women

4.   Pethavan 2012- about a father, Pazhani, who has been ordered by the village panchayat to murder his daughter Bhakkiyam who wants to marry a Dalit boy

5.   Sellada Panan 2018- fifth novel- Sahitya Academy award

Pundit Iyothee Thass (1845-1914)- Tamil Scholar

1.   Tamizhen –one paise Tamilian weekly newspaper from 1907-1914

 

Rettamalai Srinivasan- brother-in-law of Iyothee Thass

1.   Adi-Dravida Mahajana Sabha(1893) -began as Panchamar (Periyar) Mahajana Sabha in 1891, along with Iyohtee thass, which later became Adi-Dravida Mahajana Sabha.

2.   Conducted First conference of untouchables in 1893.

3.    Paraiyan (1893-99)- Tamil newspaper for the price of four annas 

4.   He represented Periyars in first two round table conferences in London in 1930,1931

Hazari

1.   Untouchable: The Autobiography of an Indian Outcaste (1951)

Laxman Gaikwad

1.   Uchalya in 1987 (Marathi; English The Branded, 1998).

C K (Chekot Karain) Janu (1970-- )- Adivasi Women writer and leader from Kerala

1.   Janu: The Life Story of C K Janu (2003)- 56 pages autobiography published in Malayalam, Translated into English as “Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of CK Janu.” By N Ravi Shanker

Narendra Jadhav- MP, VC, Dalit Writer

Jadav’s autobiographical trilogy of novels are:

a.     Aamcha Baap Aan Amhi (Marathi, 1993) (Our Father and Us)- tribute to a father from children

b.     Outcaste: A Memoir (English, 2003)

c.      Untouchables (English, 2005)

Dr. Namdeo Nimgade’s

1.   In the Tiger’s Shadow

 

Alok K. Mukherjee

1.   This Gift of English: English Education and the Formation of Alternative Hegemonies in India (2009)- critiques the hegemonic agendas of British and Hindu elites shaping English education in India, questions the English curricula from the demands of marginalized groups.

Laxman Mane- Marathi writer, Sahitya academy in 1981.

1.   Upara (Marathi: meaning Outsider) 1980- autobiograpahy, translated as “Upara-An Outsider” by A K Kamat.

 

Balwant Singh

1.   "An Untouchable in the IAS (1997)"

2.   "Struggle against Slavery"

 

Manoranjan Byapari

1.   Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography (2018), originally published in Bengali as Itibritte Chandal Jivan (2014)

 

Joseph Macwan (1936-2010)- Gujarathi novelist

1.   Angaliyat (Gujarathi), 1986- (Trans: The Step Child by Rita Kotari)- first Gujarath Novel set in Gujarath in 1930s.

 

P. Shivakami (born 1957) – Former IAS, Dalit Feminist Writer

1.   Pazhayana Kazhidalum (1989), she translated it as The Grip of Change (2006)

2.   Anandhayi is about the violent treatment of women and was translated into English by Pritham K Chakravarthy as The Taming of Women in 2011.

 

 

Title	Author
Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume 1)	Aakash Singh Rathore
Fakira	Annabhau Sathe
Unclaimed Terrain	Ajay Navaria
Bheda	Akhila Naik
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva	Anand Teltumbde
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Khairlanji: A Strange And Bitter Crop
Karya	Aravind Malagatti
Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature	Arjun Dangle
Homeless in my Land: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Short Stories
No entry for the new Sun: Translations from modern Marathi Dalit poetry
Annihilation of Caste	B.R. Ambedkar
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Who were the Shudras?
Buddha or Karl Marx
जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती	Baburao Bagul
When I Hid My Caste: Stories
The Prisons We Broke	Baby Kamble
Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits	Badri Narayan
Karukku	Bama
Harum-Scarum Saar & Other Stories
Sangati: Events
VANMAM: Vendetta
Just One Word: Short Stories
The Ichi Tree Monkey: New and Selected Stories
Translating Caste	Basu Tapan
One Hundred Poems of Chokha Mela	ChokhaMela, Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre
Letters to Namdeo Dhasal	Chandramohan S
Vultures	Dalpat Chauhan
Fear and Other Stories
Baluta	Daya Pawar
Under My Dark Skin Flows A Red River	Debi Chatterjee
Kusumabale	Devanura Mahadeva
Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs	Devesh Kapur
Ambedkar's World: The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement	Eleanor Zelliot
Untouchable Spring	G. Kalyana Rao
Understanding Caste: From Buddha To Ambedkar And Beyond	Gail Omvedt
Seeking Begumpura
Dalit Visions (Tracts for the Times)
Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India
Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...	Gogu Shyamala
Gabbilam: A Dalit Epic	Gurram Jashuva
The Adivasi Will Not Dance	Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Pethavan: The Begetter	Imaiyam
If There is a God and Other Stories: Short Stories
An Order from the Sky and Other Stories
Stories of Social Awakening: Reflections of Dalit Refugee Lives of Bengal	Jatin Bala
Gulamgiri	Jyotirao Phule
How Are You Veg? Dalit Stories from Telugu	Joopaka Subhadra
Dalit Literatures in India	Joshil K. Abraham
Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-imagined	Judith Misrahi-barak
Concealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature	K. Satyanarayana
An Introduction to Tamil Dalit Literature	K.A. Geetha
The Scar	K.A. Gunasekaran
Murder in Mudukulathur: Caste and Electoral Politics in Tamil Nadu	K.A. Manikumar
Dalit Lekhika: Women's Writings from Bengal	Kalyani Thakur Charal
Days Will Come Back	Kamal Dev Pall
Why I Am Not a Hindu	Kancha Ilaiah
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature	Laura R. Brueck
The Branded	Laxman Gaikwad
Broken Man: In Search Of Homeland	Loknath Yashwant
The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing	M. Dasan
Don’t Want Caste	M.R. Renukumar
City, Slum and the Marginalised: Dalits and Muslims in Delhi Slums	M.V. Bijulal
Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit	Manoranjan Byapari
The Runaway Boy
A Dalit History	Meena Kandasamy
Ms Militancy
The Gypsy Goddess
Before It Rains Again	Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy
Untouchable	Mulk Raj Anand
An Anthology Of Dalit Literature
Critical Essays on Dalit Literature	Murali Manohar
Give Us This Day A Feast Of Flesh	N.D. Rajkumar
उन्हाच्या कटाविरुद्ध	Nagraj Manjule
A Current of Blood	Namdeo Dhasal
Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underground Poems 1972-2006
Untouchables: My Family’s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India	Dr. Narendra Jadhav
To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum	Nathaniel Roberts
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life	Omprakash Valmiki
Salaam
Ghuspaithiye
The Grip of Change	P. Sivakami
The Taming of Women	P. Sivakami & Pritham K. Chakravarthy (Tr.)
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience	Perumal Murugan
Let The Rumours Be True	Pradnya Daya Pawar
The Dalit Brahmin And Other Stories	Priya Adarkar (tr.) Sharankumar Limbale
Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing	Purushotham
Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation and Identity	Raj Kumar
Dalit Literature and Criticism
Thunderstorm: Dalit Stories	Ratan Kumar Sambharia
Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing	Ravikumar
On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela (Sacred Literature Series)	Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
Touchable Tales: Publishing And Reading Dalit Literature	S. Anand
Dalit Voices in Indian Poetry: A Study of Malayalam and Marathi Poems	Sakunthala A.I.
Collected Plays of Sanjay Jiwane: a saga of dalit-ism	Sanjay Jiwane
Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha	Shantabai Kamble
Survival and Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation	Sankar Prasad Singha
The Outcaste (Akkarmashi)	Sharankumar Limbale
Hindu: A Novel
Towards An Aesthetic Of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies And Considerations
Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonials	Sharmila Rege
Ooru Keri	Siddalingaiah
A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India	Sujatha Gidla
Affairs of Caste: a Young Diary	Sumeet Samos
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader	Sunaina Arya
Caste Matters	Suraj Yengde
No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India	Susie J. Tharu
Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South India Dossier 2
The Exercise of Freedom: An Introduction to Dalit Writing
Hindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces: Swami Acchutanand and Chandrika Prasad Jigyasu, 1900-1930	Tapan Basu
LISTEN TO THE FLAMES: TEXTS AND READINGS FROM THE MARGINS
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste	Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Manikarnika	Tulsiram
Motherwit	Urmila Pawar
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Growing Up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography	Vasant Moon
Kakka: a Dalit Novel	Vemula Yellaiah
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir	Yashica Dutt
Water in a Broken Pot	Yogesh Maitreya
Singing/Thinking Anti Caste: Essays on Anti Caste Music and Text
The Bridge of Migration
Blues from Bhimnagar

  

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