Critical Caste Studies

Gajendran Ayyathurai

My Articles

It is time for a new subfield: ‘Critical Caste Studies’ : Click here to read the full article

Critical Caste Feminism [https://jwomenshistory.org/gajendran-ayyathurai-colonialism-caste-and-gender-the-emergence-of-critical-caste-feminism-in-modern-south-india/] PDF

Debrahminizing Education and Critical Caste Studies : Click here to read the full article

Critical Caste Diplomatic Studies [https://brill.com/view/journals/hjd/20/3/article-p607_9.xml] PDF

Undoing brahminism [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10436928.2025.2516395] PDF

Indologie, Kasten und Gender: Ein post-brahmanischer Forschungsansatz, Südasien Bd. 38 Nr. 3 (2018): 22-24 (in German) [https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/sasien/issue/view/981] PDF

Justifying Reparations against Brahminism/Casteism and European Imperialism in South Asia. In Rethinking North-South Discourses: Reparations and Historical Injustice, edited by Bianca Sola Claudio and Filipe Campello (London and New York: Routledge, 2026): 139–167. PDF



Critical Caste Informatics [forthcoming]

Critical Caste Philosophy and Casteless Affects [forthcoming]

Race Theory in Critical Caste Studies [forthcoming]



Other Scholars on CCS:

Laura Brueck “Critical Caste Studies and the Politics of Translating Dalit Literature” : Click here to read the full article

Murali Shanmugavelan “The Case for Critical Caste and Technology Studies” : Click here to read the full article

Disha Wadekar “Redefining Justice: Legal Scholarship in Critical Caste Studies” : Click here to read the full article

Nayana Kirasur and Britt Paris “Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review” : Click here to read the full article

Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, Aakash Solanki, and Priyank Chandra, “ 'Studying Up' through Digital Ethnography: The Case of Conservative Caste Enclaves” : Click here to read the full article

Divya Sivaramane, “Critical Caste Studies.” In Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts edited by Mahitosh Mandal, Sanjiv Kondekar, (Routledge 2026)

Anantha Raman, P., & Ratnamala, V. "Digital resistance: a critical analysis of anti-caste activism in the digital sphere." Journal of Gender Studies, (2026): 1–24. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2633723 ] PDF