Scholarly
Resources on Caste
Caste
in Ancient
India
History & Sociology of
Caste
Dalit Critics on Caste
Caste in
Ancient India
Smith,
Brian K. 1994.
Classifying the
universe : the ancient Indian varna
system and the origins of caste. New York : Oxford University
Press.
Olivelle, Patrick. 2004.
The law
code of Manu / a new translation based on
the critical edition by Oxford University Press.
Olivelle, Patrick. 1999.
The
dharmasutras : the law codes of Apastamba, Gautama,
Baudhayana, and Vasistha / translated from the original
Sanskrit.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Parasher-Sen, Aloka
(ed). 2004.
Subordinate and marginal
groups in early India, New Delhi
: Oxford University Press.
History
& Sociology of
Caste
Human Rights Watch, 1999.
BROKEN PEOPLE: Caste Violence Aganist India's "Untouchables".
National Geographic Magazine, 2003.
Untouchable.
CBC Radio, 2004.
The Untouchables.
Naresh Puri, 2004.
The Caste Divide. Transcript of BBC Radio 4 program. Archived at CounterCurrents.org
Bayly, Susan, 1999.
Caste, society
and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the
modern age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Charsley, S. (1996)
‘Untouchable:
what is in a name?’ JRAI (n.s.) 2(1): 1-23.
Deliège, R.
The myths of origin of the Indian Untouchables,
Man 28, 1993: 533-49
Dirks, Nicholas
B, 2001.
Castes of mind :
colonialism and the making of modern
India. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
Dumont,
Louis. 1980,
Homo hierarchicus : the
caste system and its implications. Chicago : University of
Chicago Press.
Gupta, Dipankar (ed), 2004.
Caste
in question : identity or hierarchy? New
Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications.
Gupta, Dipankar, 2000.
Interrogating
caste : understanding hierarchy and difference
in Indian society. New York, NY : Penguin Books.
Quigley, Declan, 1994.
The
interpretation of caste. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Srinivas, M.N. 1996.
Caste, its
twentieth
century avatar. New York, N.Y.
:Penguin
Books.
Srinivas, M.N. 1987.
The
dominant caste and
other essays. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Jaiswal, Suvira 1998. Caste :
Origin,
Function and Dimensions of Change. Manohar.
Dalit Critics on Caste
B.R. Ambedkar's writings
are available at
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd
Ambedkar, B.R.
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development. Source: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol 1. Bombay Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979.
Ambedkar, B.
R.
The Annihilation of Caste:
an undelivered speech, archived at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.
Ambedkar, B.
R. 1946.
Who were the Shudras? How
they came to be the fourth
Varna in the Indo-Aryan society. Bombay, Thacker Date.
Ambedkar, B.
R. 1948.
The untouchables; who were
they? and why they became
untouchables. New Delhi, Amrit Book Co.
Ilaiah, Kancha, 2004.
Buffalo
nationalism : a critique of spiritual fascism.
Ilaiah, Kancha, 1996.
Why I am not a
Hindu : a Sudra critique of Hindutva, philosophy, culture, and
political economy. Calcutta : Samya.
Moon, Vasant.
2001.
Growing up untouchable in
India : a dalit autobiography,
translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt ; with an introduction
by Eleanor Zelliot. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Omvedt, G. 2003.
Caste and Hinduism. Economic and Political Weekly, 2003. Archived at CounterCurrents.org.
Omvedt, G. (1979).
The downtrodden
among the downtrodden: An interview with a Dalit agricultural laborer. Signs,
4(4), 763-774.
