Concealing Caste

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.

• 1: Joel Lee/K Satyanarayana: Introduction2: Baburao Bagul: When I Hid My Caste3: Omprakash Valmiki: Dread4: M.M. Vinodini: The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke 15: 11-325: Ajay Navaria: New Custom6: Surajpal Chauhan: Raw Deal7: Sharankumar Limbale: Friend of the Family8: Jai Prakash Kardam: No Bar9: Omprakash Valmiki: Sandstorm10: C. Ayyappan: Madness11: Ajay Navaria: Tattoo12: BR Ambedkar: Waiting for a Visa13: Kausalya Baisantry: Doubly Cursed14: Omprakash Valmiki: Joothan15: Jai Prakash Kardam: My Caste16: Urmila Pawar: Weave of my Life17: Manoranjan Byapari: Interrogating my Chandal Life18: Shailaja Paik: The Flood19: Yashica Dutt: Coming Out as Dalit20: Pratibha Jeyachandran: In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit