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Anbu Nagar is a Dalit slum in the industrial sprawl of north Chennai. Attempting to grasp the connections between religion and everyday life in Anb...

In this provocative book, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitch...

In 1987, a thirteen-year-old in Rajasthan joins the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Despite his untouchable status, he rises through the ranks. He hat...

Balagopal’s writings, from the early 1980s till he died in 2009, offer us a rare insight into the making of modern India. Civil rights work provide...

Upali, embittered survivor of a brutal war of conquest, is given a job by the emperor, Ashoka, the victor of that war - to write the first ever chr...

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics every eighteen minutes a crime i...

This is a classic monograph on the Mahar movement in western India. It documents the social and political forces that shaped Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar...

In “Scream”—the lead story in Ajay Navaria’s collection—the unnamed protagonist is told at the outset, ‘Crime is very seductive. And revenge a tric...

A Brahman ‘mega Convention’ in contemporary Pune reasserts faith in endogamy for ‘National interest’, and imposes new codes on Brahman women. A Bra...

In 1873, Jotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Gulamgiri (Slavery), a scathingly witty attack on the vedas being idle fantasies of the brahman mind which e...

September 1970. Ramchandra Singh enters the Hardoi District Jail in Uttar Pradesh as a naxalite undertrial. Barely twenty, his life of expanding pr...

In the pantheon of global liberation heroes, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. Leaders like man de LA have lauded him as being part of...

This anthology, for the first time, showcases the best of Dalit writing from across India: B.R. Ambedkar to Devanoora Mahadeva, Chentharassery to M...

Everyone tumbles through these pages: parent and prostitute, lover and charlatan, Jew and Turk, madman and saint, fornicator and abstainer, the gei...

Gauri Lankesh was the definitive activist-journalist, someone whose head and heart worked as one to encompass her life. Gathered here is a selectio...

1980s. Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, South India. Landless dalits are caught between a reddy and a hard place. The wealthy reddys are like movie villai...

A Chaplinesque autobiography that will make you laugh and cryA poet tracks his journey from a dalit colony on the edges of Magadi town where he wou...

‘Why did the kanikonna blossom? It shouldn’t have, knowing that no one would pay it heed anyway.’ This anthology answers the question raised by a v...

Critical study of the film, Lagaan, and analysis of its preconceptions and views of society and the role of Brahmans. A thoughtful Dalit critique o...

What happened between 8 and 18 May 2009 in Eelam? Did no one write diaries? Did no one have cameras? Were there no poets there? Not a single artist...

Who discovered the first detergent soap in India?Who created scripts as they crafted pots?Who selected and standardised most of the food items we e...