8 must-read politics books like Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

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Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

By: Yashica Dutt

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro…

"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celebrity for Dalits."

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celebrity for Dalits."

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

If you liked the politics plot in Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

By: Sujatha Gidla

3.97

Format: 570 pages,

The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutio… read more

Similar categories in Sujatha Gidla's Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • india

2. The Annihilation of Caste

By: B.R. Ambedkar

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more

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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

3. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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6. Caste Matters

By: Suraj Yengde

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive book, Suraj Yengde, a first-generation Dalit scholar educated across continents, … read more

Similar categories in Suraj Yengde's Caste Matters book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • india
  • social justice
  • sociology
Cover of Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts by Sarah Thornton

7. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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8. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.14

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

By: Shrayana Bhattacharya

4.29

Format: 384 pages, None

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more

Similar categories in Shrayana Bhattacharya's Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

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10. A Woman of Pleasure

By: Kiyoko Murata

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more

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11. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

By: Therese Oneill

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more

Similar categories in Therese Oneill's Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."

-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

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12. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered: My Years as a Nun book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

By: Yashica Dutt

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more

Similar categories in Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • india
  • social justice
  • sociology
"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

14. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Education of Yuri

By: Jerry Pinto

4.13

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Pinto's The Education of Yuri book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • indian literature
  • india
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16. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

Similar categories in Chantha Nguon's Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

17. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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Cover of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

19. The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded … read more

Similar categories in Thenmozhi Soundararajan's The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people and share the flaws of their builders."

-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

"People in the West need to know that most of the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural products of South Asia are tainted by Brahmanism. What may have offered you liberation and healing also causes c…"

-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

Cover of But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

20. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli

4.58

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more

Similar categories in Sahaj Kaur Kohli's But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

By: Edward Humes

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how indi… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World book and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

  • nonfiction

11 Best history books like Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

Transform Your Habits

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Sujatha Gidla

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Caste Matters

Suraj Yengde

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

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18 Top audiobook books like But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Transform Your Habits

They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Prachi Gupta

4.36

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