Read Dalit Literature

Hosted by pranjuli

8 participants, 27 books added

Starts: Monday, 01 January 2024

Ends: Tuesday, 31 December 2024

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

All books added
A Red-necked Green Bird by Ambai

A Red-necked Green Bird

Ambai

216 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
The Stomach that Chewed Hunger and Other Stories by

The Stomach that Chewed Hunger and Other Stories

Tamil Literature In English Translation

152 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

fiction
Harum-Scarum Saar & Other Stories by Bama, N. Ravi Shanker

Harum-Scarum Saar & Other Stories

Bama, N. Ravi Shanker

105 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Ma is Scared and other short stories by Anjali Kajal

Ma is Scared and other short stories

Anjali Kajal

154 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction short stories informative reflective medium-paced
Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre by Deep Halder

Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre

Deep Halder

176 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional fast-paced
Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India by Fakir Mohan Senapati

Six Acres and a Third: The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India

Fakir Mohan Senapati

222 pages • first pub 1902 (editions)

fiction classics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Flowers on the Grave of Caste by Yogesh Maitreya

Flowers on the Grave of Caste

Yogesh Maitreya

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

fiction short stories sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Prisons We Broke by Baby Kamble, Maya Pandit

The Prisons We Broke

Baby Kamble, Maya Pandit

192 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
বাতাসে বারুদের গন্ধ by Manoranjan Byapari

বাতাসে বারুদের গন্ধ

Manoranjan Byapari

110 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction literary politics
Unclaimed Terrain by Laura Brueck, Ajay Navaria

Unclaimed Terrain

Laura Brueck, Ajay Navaria

200 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced