Caste in India
 Historical sources on the Internet
July 2018
Any discussion on India’s history and society is incomplete without exploring the social hierarchy or caste that has afflicted the country for centuries. Although it’s a topic on which much has been written, we bring a selection of resources that explore its historical bacground. This is not a complete list by any way – it keeps growing. We are avoiding debates on the current situation, and documenting mostly the historical resources here. If you find any discrepency here, do let us know.
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, Dr B.R. Ambedkar
https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ojmNCwAAQBAJ
Who Were the Shudras?, Volume 1, Dr B.R. Ambedkar
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=JGI0BQAAQBAJ
Annihilation of Caste, Volume 1, Dr
B.R. Ambedkar
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Eio8BQAAQBAJ
Dalits: Past, present and future, Anand Teltumbde
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=fZXgDAAAQBAJ
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of
Caste,
the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K.
Gandhi, Arundhati Roy
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=w1VeDgAAQBAJ
History of the Indian Caste System and Its Impact on India
Today,
Manali S. Deshpande
(CPSU)
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=socssp
Gandhi and the Caste System, B. R. Nanda, Oxford
http://oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195633634.001.0001
/acprof-9780195633634-chapter-4
The ugly truth about India's caste system, Romila Thapar
(Excerpts from Indian Cultures As Heritage, Aleph Book
Company)
https://dailyo.in/arts/caste-conflict-shudras-brahminism-golden-age-indian-cultures-
as-heritage-romila-thapar/story/1/22790.html
Timeline: A brief history of India's caste system, The Globe
and Mail
https://theglobeandmail.com/news/world/breaking-caste/timeline-a-brief-history-
of-indias-caste-system/article641264/
A Brief History Of The Caste System And Untouchability
In India, Abhishek Mittal,
The Logical Indian
https://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/awareness/caste-system-and-
untouchability-in-india/
"Untouchability" and
Segregation, Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern
A Report by Human Rights
Watch for the United Nations World Conference
Against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
Durban, South Africa,
September 2001.
https://hrw.org/legacy/reports/2001/globalcaste/caste0801-03.htm
A gender-based theory of the origin of the caste system of
India, Chris Bidnera,
Mukesh
Eswaran.
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387814001588
The Origins of the Caste System, Ebenezer Sunder Raj
(Transformation journal)
https://jstor.org/stable/43052102
Indian Caste Origins: Genomic Insights and Future Outlook, Partha P. Majumder
https://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/6/931.full
The Culture and Civilisation of
Ancient India in Historical Outline, Kosambi D.D.
https://archive.org/details/TheCultureAndCivilisationOfAncientIndiaInHistoricalOutline
"De-Casteing" India: How Dalit
Women's Rights Civil Society Organizations
Tackle Caste Based Socio-Political
& Religio-Cultural Challenges,
Festival Godwin Boateng et al.
https://researchgate.net/publication/304466465_DeCasteing_India_How_Dalit_Women's_Rights_Civil_
Society_Organizations_Tackle_Caste_Based_Socio-Political_Religio-Cultural_Challenges
Indian caste system: Historical and psychoanalytic views,
Madhusudana Rao Vallabhaneni, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
https://researchgate.net/publication/284785411_Indian_caste_system_
Historical_and_psychoanalytic_views
Study reveals origin of India’s caste system (The Times of
India)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Study-reveals-origin-
of-Indias-caste-system/articleshow/21754499.cms
Genetic Study Reveals Origin of India's Caste System, Tia Ghose, Live Science
https://livescience.com/38751-genetic-study-reveals-caste-system-origins.html
How a new genetic study is throwing light on the origins of
Indian caste system,
Ramanathan S. The News Minute
https://thenewsminute.com/article/how-new-genetic-study-throwing-light-origins-
indian-caste-system-38232
Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian
Caste Populations, Michael Bamshad,
Toomas Kivisild, at al.
https://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/6/994.short
British Untouchables: A Study of Dalit Identity and
Education, Mr Paul Ghuman
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=iNahAgAAQBAJ
Colonial consciousness and the caste
system in 20th-century India.
A study of the
intellectual and institutional impact of orientalist discourse,
Jakob De Roover, Sarika Rao, Ghent University.
https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/colonial-consciousness-and-
caste-system-20th-century-india-study-intellectual-and
What Did Europeans Contribute to the Caste System In India?, Sumit Guha,
University of Texas at Austin
https://jhiblog.org/2018/05/30/what-did-europeans-contribute-to-the-
caste-system-in-india/
The Political Intensification of Caste: India Under the Raj,
Sasha Riser-Kositsky,
University
of Pennsylvania
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=phr
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place, Arjun
Appadurai, Cultural Anthropology
https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1988.3.1.02a00040
Gods, Priests and Purity: On the Relation Between Hinduism
and the Caste System,
C. J. Fuller, Man
https://jstor.org/stable/2801869
The Caste System of India, Mason Olcott,
American Sociological Review
https://jstor.org/stable/2085128
Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste,
Class
and State, Uma Chakravarti, Economic and Political
Weekly
https://jstor.org/stable/4399556
Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao
Phule and Low Caste Protest in
19th century Western
India, Rosalind O'Hanlon (CUP)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth
Century to the
Modern Age, Susan Bayly (CUP)
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste
System and Its Implications, Louis Dumont
https://archive.org/details/LouisDumontHomoHierarchicusTheCasteSystemAndItsImplications1988
Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification
in a Tanjore Village,
André Béteille
http://oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077435.
001.0001/acprof-9780198077435
From Varna to Jati: The Indian
caste system, from the Asiatic to the
feudal mode of production, Dipankar Gupta
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00472338085390141?
journalCode=rjoc20
Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: State-hinterland Relations in
Preindustrial India,
Richard Gabriel Fox
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC
The Culturalization of Caste in
India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age,
Balmurli
Natrajan
https://questia.com/library/120092585/the-culturalization-of-caste-in-india-identity-and
Classifying the Universe: The Ancient Indian Varṇa System and the Origins of Caste,
Brian K.
Smith, Lama Marut
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Classifying_the_Universe.html?id=
Us8Z6MgWUWkC
Evolution of caste system in India and Review of Literature
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/22491/14/14_chapter2.pdf.pdf
The Caste System of Northern India, Sir Edward Blunt
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Caste_System_of_Northern_
India.html?id=mABr0B_Ah2QC
History, Social Divisions, and Public Goods in Rural India, Abhijit Banerjee,
Lakshmi Iyer, Rohini Somanathan, Journal of the
European Economic Association
https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/639/2281506
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life, Omprakash Valmiki
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=y-HhVh15Wk0C
Encyclopaedia of scheduled castes
and scheduled tribes, Volume 1, C.P. Yadav
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=t463AAAAIAAJ
Dalit Visions: The Anti-caste Movement and the Construction
of an Indian Identity,
Gail Omvedt, Orient Blackswan
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Dalit_Visions.html?id=kCwpXZlKqL0C
Jotirao Phule
and the ideology of social revolution in India, Gail Omvedt
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Z7ztAAAAIAAJ
Debrahmanising History: Dominance
and Resistance in Indian Society,
Braj Ranjan Mani
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5OMSiJ4RJGsC
Can There Be a Category Called Dalit Muslims?, Imtiaz Ahmad, Studies in
Inequality and Social Justice, page 109
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/37638134/Studies_in_
Inequality_and_Social_Justice.pdf
Muslim Castes in India, Rémy Delage (English translation)
http://booksandideas.net/Muslim-Castes-in-India.html
Quest for Equality and Identity: The 'Pasmanda'
Muslim Discourse in
Post-1947 Bihar, Rajesh Kumar Nayak
https://jstor.org/stable/44158899
Aspiring to Rise: Agitation of Muslim ‘Other Backward
Classes’ in Uttar Pradesh,
Abdul Waheed, Sheikh Idrees Mujtaba
http://muslimsocieties.org/Vol10_1/Aspiring_to_Rise.pdf
Caste and caste based discriminations Among Indian Muslims,
Masood Alam Falahi
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/5664/1/AHRC_16,_Caste_and_Caste_Based_
Discriminations_Among_Indian_Muslims.pdf
Social Structure, OBCs and Muslims, Seik
Rahim Mondal,
Economic and Political Weekly
https://jstor.org/stable/4414284
Rethinking the Pasmanda Movement,
Khalid Anis Ansari,
Economic and Political Weekly
https://jstor.org/stable/40278652
Challenging the Ashrafs: The
Politics of Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz,
Arshad Alam
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602000902943542
New Directions in Indian Muslim Politics the Agenda of All
India Pasmanda
Muslim Mahaz,
Arshad Alam (History and
Sociology of South Asia)
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/223080750700100206?
journalCode=hsaa
Other Backward Class Muslims of West Bengal, India: A
Sociological and Social
Anthropological Insight, Intekhab
Hossain
https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13602004.2013.826449
Muslim Backward Classes: A Sociological Perspective, Azra Khanam
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Sdz9AAAAQBAJ
Politics of ‘Pasmanda’ Muslims, A
Case Study of Bihar, Manjur Ali
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/223080751000400203
Muslim Caste in Uttar Pradesh, Zarina
Ahmad, The Economic Weekly
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5279/8a5a1abe6d65a6c90ca773d
53c860b923399.pdf
Does Caste Still Define Disparity? A Look at Inequality in
Kerala, India,
Ashwini Deshpande,
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
https://aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.90.2.322
Kerala Christians and the Caste System, C. J. Fuller, Man
https://jstor.org/stable/2800388
Inclusion and Exclusion: A Process in the Caste System of Gujarat,
David F. Pocock
https://journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/soutjanth.13.1.3629155?journalCode=soutjanth
State and Caste System (Jāti)
in the Eighteenth Century Maratha Kingdom,
Hiroshi Fukazawa
https://jstor.org/stable/43295495
Social History of an Indian Caste: The Kayasths
of Hyderabad, Karen Isaksen Leonard
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=32aMey7k-IYC
Why India is still fighting over caste system, Ravi Agrawal, CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/28/asia/india-gujarat-caste-protests/
11 Books To Read If You Want To Understand Caste In India:
A
reading list anchored by Dalit voices
https://lithub.com/11-books-to-read-if-you-want-to-understand-caste-in-india/
What is India's caste system? BBC
https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616
This list is in progress. Please let us know if you know of some good archive on the Internet which concerns us and we may have missed. Please report if you find any dead links. |
