Starred titles (*) are especially recommended.
Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative Histroy, The Penguin Press (New York), 2009
Anand Teltumbde, Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop, Navayana (New Delhi), 2008
** Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhadeo Torat, Satish Deshpande, and Amita Baviskar, Untouchability in Rural India, Sage, 2006
Gita Ramaswamy, India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh and Their Work, Navayana Publishing, 2005
S. Viswanathan, Dalits in Dravidian Land: Frontline Reports on Anti-Dalit Violence in Tamil Nadu (1995-2004), Navayana [Chennai], 2005
* Uma Chakravarti, Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens, Bhaktal and Sen, Calcutta, 2003
Pauline Kolenda, Caste, Marriage and Inequality: Studies from North and South India, Rawat Publications, 2003
Dilip D'Souza, Branded by Law: Looking at India's Denotified Tribes, Penguin, 2001
* Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables," Human Rights Watch, March 1999
Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, The New Cambridge History of India IV-3, Cambridge UP, 1999
** Ursula Sharma, Caste (Concepts in the Social Sciences), Open University Press, 1999
Mari Marcel Thekaekara, Endless Filth: The Saga of the Bhangis, ZED Books, 2003 (Books for Change, 1999)
Suvira Jaiswal, Caste: Origin, Function, and Dimensions of Change, Manohar, 2005 (1998)
J. Michael Mahar (ed.), The Untouchables in Contemporary India, Rawat, 1998
* Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany, The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, Cambridge UP, 1998
Alan Dundes, Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folklorist Essay on Caste and Untouchability, Rowman and Littlefield, 1997
C. F. Fuller (ed.), Caste Today, Oxford UP, 1997
* Pauline Kolenda, Caste in Contemporary India: Beyond Organic Solidarity, Rawat Publications, 1997
H. Kotani (ed.), Caste System, Untouchability and the Depressed, Manohar, 1997
* M.N. Srinivas (ed.), Caste: Its Twentieth Century Avatar, Penguin, 1996
* Robert Deliege, The Untouchables of India, Berg Publishers (Les Intouchables en inde: des castes d'exclus, 1995)
Viramma, Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine, Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (Une vie de paria, 1995), Verso, 1997
** Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Sharma (eds.), Contextualising Caste: Post-Dumontian Approaches, Blackwell, 1994
Brian K. Smith, Classifying the Universe: The Ancient Indian Varna System and the Origins of Caste, Oxford UP, 1994
Declan Quigley, The Interpretation of Caste, Oxford UP, 1993
John C.B. Webster, The Dalit Christians: A History, The Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) [New Delhi], 1992
Andre Beteille, Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative Perspective, Oxford University Press, 1991
Wendy Doniger with Brian K. Smith (trans.), The Laws of Manu, Penguin, 1991
* Dipankar Gupta (ed.), Social Stratification, Oxford UP, 1991
** Gloria Goodwin Raheja, The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village, University of Chicago Press, 1988
** Irfan Habib, "Caste in Indian History" (March 1985), Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perspective, Tulika Books, 1995
Pauline Kolenda, Caste, Cult and Hierarchy: Essays on the Culture of India, Folklore Institute, 1983
** Morton Klass, Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980
* Gerald D. Berreman, Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality, Folklore Institute, 1979
James M. Freeman, Untouchable: An Indian Life History, Stanford University Press, 1979
* Michael Moffat, An Untouchable Community In South India: Structure and Consensus, Princeton UP, 1979
Pauline Kolenda, "The Caste System Analyzed: Purity and Pollution," in Caste in Contemporary India: Beyond Organic Solidarity (Rawat Publications (New Delhi), 1997 (Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., 1978)), reprinted in T.N. Madan, Religion in India, Oxford UP, 1991
Edmund Leach and S. N. Mukherjee (eds.), Elites in South Asia, Cambridge University Press, 1970
** David Mandelbaum, Society in India, Popular Prakashan 1998 (University of California Press (in two volumes), 1970)
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Purity and Taboo, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966
** M.N. Srinivas, Caste in Modern India and Other Essays, Asia Publishing House, 1962
* Irawati Karve, Hindu Society: An Interpretation, Deccan College (Poona), 1961
* E. R. Leach (ed.), Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan, Cambridge UP, 1960
Ramkrishna Mukherjee, The Dynamics of a Rural Society: A Study of the Economic Structure in Bengal Villages, Akademie-Verlag (Berlin), 1957
Oliver Cox, Caste, Class and Race, Monthly Review Press (Doubleday), 1948
J.H. Hutton, Caste in India: Its Nature, Function, and Origins, Cambridge UP, 1946
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