Caste reading list

The following is a selection of key books and journal articles on caste and (in) equality issues. The Equality and Human Rights Commission's Library & Information Service regrets it is unable to supply copies of the items listed. Please contact your academic/public library should you wish to read any of these items.

We would be very pleased to receive suggestions of additional key books and journal articles that we could to add to this Reading List. Please e-mail library@equalityhumanrights.com if you have any to make.

Ahmad, I. (1978) Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India. New Delhi: Manohar.

Ambedkar, B. R. (1989) 'The Annihilation of Caste', in Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol. 1. Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharasthra. First published in 1936.

Ambedkar, B.R. (2002) 'Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development', in V. Rodigrues (ed.), The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 241-62.

Ashianty, S. (2014) Caste discrimination in the UK: legal developments, Equal Opportunities Review, April/May, 247, 14-16.

Bayly, S. (1999) Caste, Society and Politics in India from the 18th Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bhatty, Z. (1996) 'Social Stratification Among Muslims in India', in M.N. Srinivas, (ed.), Caste: Its Twentieth Century Avatar. New Delhi: Penguin, 244-62.

British Sikh Report Team (2013) British Sikh Report 2013.

Dalit Solidarity Network UK (2006) No Escape: Caste Discrimination in the UK. Dalit Solidarity Network UK Report.

Dhanda, M. (2009) 'Punjabi Dalit Youth: Social Dynamics of Transitions in Identity', Contemporary South Asia, 17, 1: 47-64.

Dhanda, M. (2013) ‘Identity and Difference: The Case of Dalits in Britain’. Unpublished paper, Indian Council of Social Science Research (Regional Centre), Panjab University, Chandigarh, 9 January.

Dhanda, M. (2013) ‘Caste and International Migration, India to the UK’, in I. Ness (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Wiley Blackwell.

Dhanda, M. (forthcoming) ‘Certain Allegiances, Uncertain Identities: The Fraught Struggles of Dalits in Britain’, in O.P. Dwivedi (ed.), The New Indian Diaspora. New York: Editions Rodopi, 99-119.

Dhanda, M., Morland, D. and Taylor, S. (2009) ‘Eastern Punjabi Dalits: A Case Study of Wolverhampton’, British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 30 March - 1 April.

Dhanda, M., Mosse, D., Waughray, A., Keane, D., Green, R., Iafrati, S. and Mundy, J.K. (2014) Caste in Britain: Experts' Seminar and Stakeholders' Workshop. Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 92. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Dhanda, M., Waughray, A., Keane, D., Mosse, D., Green, R. and Whittle, S. (2014) Caste in Britain: Socio-legal Review. Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 91. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Dirks, N.B. (2002) Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. New Delhi: Permanent Black.

Dumont, L. (1980) Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Eide, A. and Yokata, Y. (2004) Discrimination Based on Work and Descent: Expanded Working Paper. UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/31, 5 July.

Employers Law (2014) ' Tribunal holds that Equality Act 2010 prohibits caste discrimination', March: 6.

Galanter, M. (1984) Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Gazdar, H. (2007) 'Class, Caste or Race: Veils over Social Oppression in Pakistan', Economic and Political Weekly, 42, 2: 86-88.

Ghuman, P. (2011) British Untouchables: A Study of Dalit Identity and Education. Farnham: Ashgate.

Green, R. and Whittle, S. (2009) Hidden Apartheid - Voice of the Community: Caste and Caste Discrimination in the UK, A Scoping Study. Derby: Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance.

Gupta, D. (2000) Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society. New Delhi: Penguin Books India.

Hardtmann, E. (2009) The Dalit Movement in India: Local Practices, Global Connections. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Iyer, L., Khanna, T. and Varshney, A. (2013) 'Caste and Entrepreneurship in India', Economic and Political Weekly, 48, 6: 52-60.

Jadhav, S. (2012) ‘Caste, Culture and Clinic’. Seminar, 633: May ('Caste Matters: a Symposium on Inequalities, Identities and Disintegrating Hierarchies in India').

Jaspal, R. (2011) 'Caste, Social Stigma and Identity Processes', Psychology and Developing Societies, 23, 1: 27-62.

Jodhka, S. (2012) Caste. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Juergensmeyer, M. (1982) Religion as Social Vision: The Movement Against Untouchability in 20th Century Punjab. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Keane, D. (2007) Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law. Aldershot: Ashgate.

McPherson, K. and Shaw, K. (2012) 'Is it Time to Legislate on Caste?', Employment Law Journal, 127, February: 12-15.

Metcalf, H. and Rolfe, H. (2010) Caste Discrimination and Harassment in Great Britain, London: National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Mosse, D. (2012) The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Mosse, D. (2012) ‘Caste and Christianity' Seminar, 633: May ('Caste Matters: a Symposium on Inequalities, Identities and Disintegrating Hierarchies in India').

Natrajan, B. (2012) The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age. London: Routledge.

Nesbitt, E. (1997) ' “We Are All Equal”: Young British Punjabis’ and Gujuratis’ Perceptions of Caste', International Journal of Punjab Studies, 4, 2: 201-18.

Nesbitt, E. (2009) ‘Research Report: Studying the Religious Socialization of Sikh and ‘Mixed-Faith’ Youth in Britain: Contexts and Issues’, Journal of Religion in Europe, 2: 37-57.

O’Brien, J. (2012) The Unconquered People: The Liberation Journey of an Oppressed Caste. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Qureshi, K.,Varghese, V.J., Osella, F. and Rajan, S.I. (2012) ‘Migration, Transnationalism, and Ambivalence: The Punjab–United Kingdom Linkage’, in P. Pitkänen, A. Içduygu and D. Sert (eds), Migration and Transformation: Multi-level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism. Houten: Springer Netherlands, 13-61.

Rafanell, I. and Gorringe, H. (2010) 'Consenting to Domination? Theorising Power, Agency and Embodiment with Reference to Caste', The Sociological Review, 58, 4: 604-22.

Ram, R. (2008) 'Ravidass Deras and Social Protest: Making Sense of Dalit Consciousness in Punjab (India)', The Journal of Asian Studies, 67, 4: 1341-64.

Rao, A. (2009) The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. Berkeley. CA: University of California Press.

Reddy, D. (2005) 'The Ethnicity of Caste', Anthropological Quarterly, 78, 3: 543-84.

Sato, K. (2012) 'Divisions among Sikh Communities in Britain and the Role of Caste System: A Case Study of Four Gurdwaras in Multi-Ethnic Leicester', Journal of Punjab Studies, 19, 1: 1-26.

Sharma, R.P. (2008). The Caste System. London: Hindu Council UK.

Singh, G. (2012) 'Sikhism', in L. Woodhead and R. Catto (eds.), Religion and Change in Modern Britain, Abingdon: Routledge, 100-10.

Steur, L. (2012) ‘Dalit Civil Society Activism’. Seminar, 633: May ('Caste Matters: a Symposium on Inequalities, Identities and Disintegrating Hierarchies in India').

Takhar, O. (2011) 'The Transmission of Tradition and Self Representation Amongst the Valmikis, Ravidasis and Namdharis in Britain', in K. Jacobsen and K. Myrvold (eds.), Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identity and Representations. Aldershot: Ashgate, 279-304.

Taylor, S. (2013) 'Transnational Emotion Work: Punjabi Migration, Caste and Identity', International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion, 5, 3: 281-95.

Taylor, S. and Singh, M. (2013) 'Punjab’s Doaban Migration-Development Nexus: Transnationalism and Caste Domination', Economic and Political Weekly (Special Article), 48, 24: 50-57.

Thorat, S. and Newman, K. (eds.) (2010) Blocked by Caste: Economic Discrimination in Modern India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Waughray, A. (2007) 'Caste: Invisible Discrimination?' New Law Journal 157, 7263: 348-49.

Waughray, A. (2009) 'Caste Discrimination: A 21st Century Challenge for UK Discrimination Law?' Modern Law Review, 72, 2: 182-219.

Waughray, A. (2010) 'Caste Discrimination and Minority Rights: The Case of India’s Dalits', International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 17: 327-53.

Waughray, A. (2013) ‘Capturing Caste in Law: The Legal Regulation of Caste and Caste Discrimination’. PhD thesis: University of Liverpool.

Zavos, J. (2012) 'Hinduism', in L. Woodhead and R. Catto (eds.), Religion and Change in Modern Britain. Abingdon: Routledge, 121-31.

David Sparrow

EHRC Library & Information Services

March 2014

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2014