Primary Texts:
1. Ambedkar, Babasaheb. Writings and Speeches, vols.11. The Education Department, Bombay: Government of Maharashtra, 1989-1991.
2. Ambedkar, Babasaheb. Who were Sudras? Bombay: Thacker, 1946.
3. Ambedkar, Babasaheb. Annihilation of Caste. Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akadmi, 1987.
4. Ambedkar, Babasaheb. Why go for Conversion. Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akadmi, 1987.
5. Bhave, Sumitra. Pan on Fire: Eight Dalit Women Tell their Story. Translated by Gauri Deshpande. New Delhi; Indian Social Institute, 1988.
6. Dhasal, Namdeo. Poet of the Underworld. Translated by Dilip Chitre. Chennai: Navayana, 2007.
7. Dangle, Arjun. (ed). Poisoned Bread: Translation from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature. (1992). Bombay: Orient Longman, 1994.
8. Kamble, Baby. The Prison we Broke. Translated from Marathi by Maya Pandit, Chennai: Orient Longman, 2008.
9. Kamble, Santabai. Majya Jalmachi Chittarakatha. (Marathi). Pune, Suguva Prakashan, 1990.
10. Laxmibai Tilak. Smritichitree. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1994.
11. Limbale, Sharankumar. The Outcaste. Translated from Marathi by Santosh Bhoomkar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.
12. Mane, Laxman. Upara. Translated as Outsider by A.K Kamat. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1997.
13. Moon, Vasant. Vasti (1985). Translated into English as Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography by Gail Omvedt. United States of America: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher, 2001.
14. Pawar, Urmila. Aaidan. (Marathi). Bombay: Granthali, 2003.
15. Pawa, Urmil. The Weave of my Life: A Dalit Woman Memoirs. Translated by Maya Pandit. New Delhi: Columbia University Press, 2008.
16. Pawde, Kumud. Antasphot (Marathi). Aurangabad: Anand Prakashan, 1981.
17. Ranade Ramabai. Amchya Ayushyatil Kahi Athavani (Marathi), Himself the Autobiography of a Hindu lady by Ranade Ramabai. Mumbai: Longmans Green and Co, 1938.
18. Shantabai Kamble's Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha published as a complete book in 1986 but presented to readers and television audiences in serial form through the early 1980s, is considered the first autobiographical narrative by Dalit woman writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantabai_Kamble
19. Tilak, Laxmibai. I Follow After. Translated by E. Josephine. USA: Oxford University Press, 1950.
Secondary Texts:
1. Abedi, Zakir. Dalit Social Empowerenment in India. Arise Publishers and Distridutors: New Delhi, 2010.
2. Acampora, Christa Davis and Angela L.(eds) “Unmaking Race, Remaking Souls: Transforming Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom”. USA: State University of New York, 2007.
3. Ahmad, Imtiaz. Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature, and History. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010.
4. Ashely, Kathleen (ed). Autobiography and Post- Modernism. Bosson: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
5. Arnold, David and Stuart Blackburn, ed. Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography and Life History. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.
6. Basu, Tapan, ed. Translating Caste. New Delhi: Katha, 2002.
7. Beth, Sarah. “Dalit Autobiographies in Hindi: Transformation of Pain into Resistance.” Swedish South Asian Studies Network, 9 July 2004.
8. Blunt, E. A. H. The Caste System of Northern India. Humphrew Milford: Oxford University Press, 1931.