Read Dalit Literature

pranjuli Host

8 participants (27 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

Read more Dalit/caste-based literature consciously. Fiction/nonfiction/memoir - anything counts as long as the focus is on understanding and developing Dalit identity. 

Challenge Books

All books added
A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet by Siddalingaiah

A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet

Siddalingaiah

302 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction reflective medium-paced
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Yashica Dutt

232 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables

B.R. Ambedkar

424 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
जूठन: पहला खंड [Joothan] by Omprakash Valmiki

जूठन: पहला खंड [Joothan]

जूठन #1

Omprakash Valmiki

164 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar

Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables

B.R. Ambedkar

31 pages • first pub 1943 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition by B.R. Ambedkar

Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

B.R. Ambedkar

416 pages • first pub 1936 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced