Dalit Studies

Mahitosh Mandal is an Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He earned his BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, and PhD from the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research interests include literature and psychoanalysis, Holocaust and popular culture, and Dalit and marginality studies. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture (2018) and co-editor of Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization (Routledge, 2023). His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.Sanjiv Kondekar is an Assistant Professor of English at Nutan Adarsh Arts, Commerce & Smt. M. H. Wegad Science College, Umred, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He earned PhD on Saint Tukaram from the Department of English, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Maharashtra. He is the recipient of Junior Research Fellowship (University Grants Commission, India). His research interests include Bhakti Movement, Tukaram Studies, Dalit Studies, and Indian Knowledge Systems. He is the author of History of Tukaram Studies: A Critical Survey (2022) and co-editor of Indian Knowledge Systems: Values and Philosophies (2024). He also co-edited Mithak: Sahitya va Sanskruti (2024). His latest Marathi-language book, titled Jivanvadi Nittitatve (2025), studies the Tamil poet-philosopher Thiruvalluvar.

• Fundamentals of Dalit Studies: An IntroductionMahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv KondekarChapter 1 Annihilation of CasteDebdas RoyChapter 2 Anti-caste ThinkersPalash BiswasChapter 3 Anti-casteismMohankumar B. S.Chapter 4 BahujanJyoti BiswasChapter 5 Brahmanical LiteratureAarti VishwakarmaChapter 6 CastePriyanka ChoudharyChapter 7 Caste and ClassSurajkumar ThubeChapter 8 Caste and LawPuspa DamaiChapter 9 Caste and RacePuspa DamaiChapter 10 Caste AtrocitiesMahitosh MandalChapter 11 Caste MicroaggressionsM. Rejoyson ThangalChapter 12 Casteism in the Indian DiasporaRishi R. GuneChapter 13 Critical Caste StudiesDhivya SivaramaneChapter 14 DalitMahitosh MandalChapter 15 Dalit ActivismNivea Thomas K.Chapter 16 Dalit AestheticsRam Avadh PrajapatiChapter 17 Dalit CinemaSubhayu BhattacharjeeChapter 18 Dalit ConvertsAmit TitareChapter 19 Dalit EnvironmentalismSanjeev Kumar VishwakarmaChapter 20 Dalit ExperienceRajdeep MondalChapter 21 Dalit FeminismPriyanka VermaChapter 22 Dalit HistoriographyDhanesh MankulamChapter 23 Dalit Life NarrativesSruti M. D.Chapter 24 Dalit LiteratureDamayanti DasChapter 25 Dalit MediaAazhi Arasi A.Chapter 26 Dalit MusicMahitosh MandalChapter 27 Dalit PanthersSanjiv KondekarChapter 28 Dalit Political PartiesPriyanka VermaChapter 29 Dalit StudiesNivea Thomas K.Chapter 30 DalitizationSanjeev Kumar VishwakarmaChapter 31 Dalits and HindutvaAbdul Najeeb Noorul AmeenChapter 32 Dalits and the British RajJyoti BiswasChapter 33 DebrahmanizationDhanesh MankulamChapter 34 Disability and the DalitAnubha AnushreeChapter 35 Educate, Agitate, OrganizeAbdul Najeeb Noorul AmeenChapter 36 Gandhi-Ambedkar DebateMadhabi KarmakarChapter 37 Graded InequalityAbdul Najeeb Noorul AmeenChapter 38 Jai BhimSubhayu BhattacharjeeChapter 39 KshatriyaizationPriyanka ChoudharyChapter 40 Mahad SatyagrahaTufan Bhaskar AwataleChapter 41 ManuvadSruti M. D.Chapter 42 Queering CasteRishi R. GuneChapter 43 ReservationJyoti BiswasChapter 44 Satyashodhak SamajSurajkumar ThubeChapter 45 Scheduled CastesProggya GhatakChapter 46 Self-Respect Movement of PeriyarDhivya SivaramaneChapter 47 Separate ElectorateChandan Kumar