Caste, Gender and Sexuality

READING LIST
1. In 1855, one young Dalit girl Mukta Salve criticised Brahmanical hegemony and the hierarchal oppressive social structure. She questioned and critically examined caste, class, gender and religion, and that empirical data remains very relevant today. Here is a profile story of Mukta Salve.
Waldekar, S. (2020, March 13). The Origin of Dalit Feminist Literature: Mukta Salve, the First Voice of Dalit Feminism – Round Table India. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/the-origin-of-dalit-feminist-literature-mukta-salve-the-first-voice-of-dalit-feminism

Salve, M. (2015, November 23). Mang Maharachya Dukhvisayi (About the grief of the Mangs and the Mahars). Savari. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from http://www.dalitweb.org/?p=2947

Baudh, S. (2021). Demarginalizing the intersection of caste, class, and sex. Journal of Human Rights, 20(1), 127–142.

Dalit Camera. (2016, July 2). Grace Banu - India's first transgender engineering student & activist [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAVhQQKfTo

Deshpande, A. and S. Sharma. 2013. ‘Entrepreneurship or Survival? Caste and Gender of Small Business in India’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII (28): 38–49.

Deshpande, S. (2013). Caste and Castelessness: Towards a Biography of the “General Category.” Economic and Political Weekly, 48(15), 32–39.

Dhanaraj, C. T. (2018, April 14). Swipe me left, I’m Dalit. GenderIT.Org. Retrieved April 22, 2022, from https://genderit.org/articles/swipe-me-left-im-dalit

Irudayam, A., Mangubhai, J. P., & Lee, J. G. (2011). Dalit women speak out: Caste, class and gender violence in India. New Delhi: Zubaan.

Kang, A. (2019, January 30). F*** me, I'm Dalit. In Plainspeak. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/f-me-i-am-dalit/

Kannabiran, V., & Kannabiran, K. (1991). Caste and Gender: Understanding Dynamics of Power and Violence. Economic and Political Weekly, 26(37), 2130-2133.

Kapadia (2017): Introduction. In: Anandhi, S., & Kapadia, K. (Eds.). Dalit women: Vanguard of an alternative politics in India. London & New York: Taylor & Francis.

Natrajan, B. (2021). Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women’s Agency-narratives on Caste and Gender Violence. CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2(2), 381–390.

Paik, S. (2021). Dalit Feminist Thought. Economic and Political Weekly, LVI (25), pp.127–136

Patil, S. M. (2017, September 8). [SPECIAL EDITION] Debrahmanizing Online Sphere: On Larger Questions. GenderIT.Org. Retrieved April 22, 2022, from https://genderit.org/articles/special-edition-debrahmanizing-online-sphere-larger-questions-caste-gender-and-patriarchy

Semmalar, G. (2018). Transphobia as a form of Brahmanism: A conversation between Gee Imaan Semmalar and Living Smile Vidya. In R. Anupama (ed.) Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality. New Delhi: Women Unlimited.

Semmalar, G. I. (2020). Re-Cast(e)ing Navtej Singh v. Union of India. NUJS Law Review, 13(3), 1–24.

Tamalapakula, S. & Tamalapuakula. S,. (2020). Caste-ing Queer Identities. NUJS Law Review. 13(3). pp. 1-8.

Rege, S (2013). Writing Caste/Writing Gender Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonios, New Delhi: Zubaan Books.

Teltumbde, A. 2008. Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Fruit. New Delhi: Navayana.