from the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program of the Library of Congress, sponsored by the U.S. Army:
India: Caste and Class
Sri Lanka: Caste
Nepal: Caste and Ethnicity
A Critique of the Hindu Council Report 'Caste in India' by Gail Omvedt
Dalits and Human Rights: The Battles Ahead by P. Sainath
Dalit Fact Sheets on reservations, atrocities, land ownership, education, and employment (Vikas Adhyayan Kendra)
'Holy' Cow And 'Unholy' Dalit by S. Anand
India's "Untouchables" Face Violence, Discrimination
(National Geographic)
Caste by T.N. Madan (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
About the Griefs of the Mangs and the Mahars (1855)
by Muktabai, a fourteen-year-old pupil of the reformer Jotiba Phule
on Bhagat Singh's writings against communalism and untouchability by S. Irfan Habib
Why I Am an Atheist by Bhagat Singh
reports:
Understanding Untouchability: A Comprehensive Study of Practices and Conditions in 1589 Villages (Navsarjan Trust and The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, 2010)
India: "Hidden Apartheid" of Discrimination Against Dalits
(Human Rights Watch, 2007)
Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern
(Human Rights Watch, 2001)
Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's Untouchables
(Human Rights Watch, 1999)
reports on dalit and tribal rights by the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), 2003-2007
Dalit exclusion: The empirical evidence by Sukhadeo Thorat
Hindu Social Order and Human Rights of Dalits by Sukhadeo Thorat
Alienation of Dalit and Tribal Lands (Committee on State Agrarian Relations and Unfinished Task of Land Reforms, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India)
resources:
ZestCaste mailing list and news archive
Navayana: "India's first and only publishing house to exclusively focus on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective"
Three Essays Collective (publisher)
audio:
The Untouchables (CBC)
An Untouchable Subject? (NPR)
Castes of Mind with Smita Narula and Prof. Nicholas Dirks (WBUR)
Challenging Discrimination: Paul Divakar and Smita Narula on the Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC)
India: A Hidden Apartheid for Dalits?: Smita Narula on Asia Pacific Forum (WBAI)
video:
India: The Broken People (Channel 4, UK)
Louis Malle on the caste system (excerpts from his 1968 documentary Phantom India)
manual scavenging:
Manual Scavenging: Nation's Shame by Sunil Kuksal
India's Shame by Annie Zaidi
Exposing an Abhorrent Practice by S. Viswanathan
caste-based debt bondage in India and Pakistan:
Child Labor in Pakistan (The Atlantic)
The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India
(Human Rights Watch)
Pakistani serfs rising up against landlords (Los Angeles Times)
Walking Out of Slavery by Sarah Stuteville
B.R. Ambedkar and dalit politics:
B.R. Ambedkar by Eleanor Zelliot (Encyclopedia of Religion)
B.R. Ambedkar, a page on his life and writings by Prof. Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
The Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar (full text with annotations for classroom use)
What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables
by B.R. Ambedkar
writings of B.R. Ambedkar at ambedkar.org
Untouchable Lincoln (Time Magazine on Ambedkar, from March 16, 1936)
Untouchable politics and politicians since 1956
caste in Hinduism:
Caste is the cruellest exclusion by Gail Omvedt
Varna and Jati by Brian K. Smith
Rig Veda: Purusa hymn and another translation with an introduction and explanatory notes
The Laws of Manu (selection)
Christians in India:
Anti-Christian Violence in India by Vinjay Lal
Charting the history of sangh parivar violence in Orissa
by Angana Chatterji (Communalism Combat)
Untouchability and Catholicism: The Case of the Paraiyars in South India by Robert Deliège
tribals (adavasis) in India:
The Adivasis of India: A History of Discrimination, Conflict, and Resistance (People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL))
Alienation of Tribal and Dalits Lands, from a draft report by the Indian Ministry of Rural Development's Committee on State Agrarian Relations and Unfinished Task of Land Reforms
novelist/activist Mahasweta Devi on India's denotified tribes
adivasis page on India Together
caste among Indian Muslims:
Social Stratification Among Muslims in India
by anthropologist Zharina Bhatty
caste in Pakistan:
Class, Caste or Race: Veils over Social Oppression by Haris Gazdar
caste among Sikhs:
Caste in the periphery by Surinder S. Jodhka
Making Sense of the Ravi Dasis by Surinder S. Jodhka
caste in Nepal:
Dalits and labour in Nepal: discrimination and forced labour
(International Labour Organization)
untouchability in Japan:
Ian's Buraku Research Resource Page
Untouchability in Japan (dalitica.org)
untouchability in medieval France:
An Accursed Race by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell
