Dalit Movement in India

Indian politics also includes politics of the oppressed sections or most popularly called Dalit Consciousness. It is about their search for identity and honor, improving socio-economic status, and fight the unequal casteism.


Dalit movements have centered on promoting anti-caste debates and reforming the representation of the Dalits in the Indian society.


The books listed below are some of the important works on Dalit Movements. Areas that they cover are:

• Social movements
• Dalits identity and ideology
• Conditions of the oppressed cates
• Colonial government
• Philosophies of Gandhi and Ambedkar on social reform
• Rise of political parties in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
• Reservation

The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India

by

Anupama Rao

Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium

by

V. Geetha and S.V. Rajadurai

The Rights of Subordinate Peoples

by

Oliver Mendelsohn and Upendra Baxi

Protest and Change: Studies in Social Movements

by

T.K. Oommen

Dalit Assertion and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution: The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh

by

Sudha Pai

Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios

by

Sharmila Rege

The World of the 'Untouchables': Paraiyars of Tamil Nadu

by

Robert Deliege

The Untouchable as Himself: Ideolog, Identity and Pragmatism Among the Lucknow Chamars

by

R.S. Khare

Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change

by

Robert L. Hardgrave

Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System

by

Narendra Jadhav

Caste System, Untouchability and the Depressed

by

H. Kotani

Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature

by

Ghanshyam Shah

Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India

by

Gail Omvedt

From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement

by

Eleanor Zelliot

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