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Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived as 'high caste' outside the home.
List of contents
- 1: Joel Lee/K Satyanarayana: Introduction
- 2: Baburao Bagul: When I Hid My Caste
- 3: Omprakash Valmiki: Dread
- 4: M.M. Vinodini: The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke 15: 11-32
- 5: Ajay Navaria: New Custom
- 6: Surajpal Chauhan: Raw Deal
- 7: Sharankumar Limbale: Friend of the Family
- 8: Jai Prakash Kardam: No Bar
- 9: Omprakash Valmiki: Sandstorm
- 10: C. Ayyappan: Madness
- 11: Ajay Navaria: Tattoo
- 12: BR Ambedkar: Waiting for a Visa
- 13: Kausalya Baisantry: Doubly Cursed
- 14: Omprakash Valmiki: Joothan
- 15: Jai Prakash Kardam: My Caste
- 16: Urmila Pawar: Weave of my Life
- 17: Manoranjan Byapari: Interrogating my Chandal Life
- 18: Shailaja Paik: The Flood
- 19: Yashica Dutt: Coming Out as Dalit
- 20: Pratibha Jeyachandran: In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
About the author
K. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013), Dalit Studies (2016) and, most recently, Dalit Text (2020). His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory.
Joel Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (2021), and his research interests lie in the critical analysis of caste, sensory studies, popular religion, and Hindi and Urdu literature.
