Table of Contents:
  • We made history, too : women in the early untouchable liberation movement / Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar
  • Dalit movement and women's movements / Gabriele Dietrich
  • Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru
  • Why I am not a Hindu / Kancha Ilaiah
  • A Dalit feminist standpoint / Sharmila Rege
  • Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression / Bela Malik
  • Dalit women's cry for liberation : "my rights are rising like the sun, will you deny this sunrise?" / Pranjali Bandhu
  • Pan on fire : eight Dalit women tell their stories / Sumitra Bhave
  • On a Dalit woman's testimonio / M.S.S. Pandian
  • The subaltern speaks / Majid H. Siddiqi
  • The women's question in the Dravidian movement c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi
  • Reconceptualising gender : Phule, Brahmanism and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti
  • Periyar, women and an ethic of citizenship / V. Geetha
  • Dr Ambedkar and the empowerment of women / Eleanor Zelliot
  • Dalit women in western ethnography / Mary E. John
  • Caste and women / Leela Dube
  • Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Vasanth Kannabiran & Kalpana Kannabiran
  • The impossible subject : caste and the gendered body / Susie Tharu
  • Understanding Sirasgaon : notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao
  • The downtrodden among the downtrodden : an interview with a Dalit agricultural labourer / Gail Omvedt
  • Of land and Dalit women / Kancha Ilaiah
  • Unmusical chairs / P. Sainath
  • Head-loads and heartbreak / P. Sainath
  • The Hindu code bill for the liberation of women / Pratima Pardeshi.