Who are we?
We are a reading, writing, research, analysis, and discussion circle for multi-tendency socialist theory, based in India primarily but with members from all around the world joining in remotely as well. We had our first meeting on 28th Jan 2020. Our current membership is 1000+.
We started in Bombay but currently in a process of creating a federation of city and campus based chapters. Within this circle there are smaller focus groups which read and meet on specific aspects of society they analyse with socialist theory.
What do we engage with?
Theory from Marxist and other socialist tendencies. We also read other things not socialist but relevant to socialist understanding.
How to join us?
If you are interested in socialist theory, do join us! We try to be as accessible as possible. Contact our convenor Anupam_Guha
How do we meet?
Currently due to the pandemic, all meetings whether of the circle itself (which happen twice or thrice a month) or its caucuses happen remotely.
Why Kosambi?
We wanted a theorist for a mascot who represents our values, and Dr. D. D. Kosambi's work is extremely important. His writing is interesting and useful, he has important contributions to as diverse fields as historiography, Marxist analysis of caste, physics, mathematics, to things as odd as stamp collecting. At the core of this group is the desire to understand material reality and Kosambi's contributions to both the natural and social sciences reflect that.
Thematic plan by month for 2020
January: Introduction and fascism
Readings: 1 to 2 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 28-01-2020, 31-01-2020
February: Introduction and the manifesto
Readings: 3 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 16-02-2020, 22-02-2020
March: Electoralism, reform, revolution, political theory
Readings: 4 to 5 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 08-03-2020, 14-03-2020 and 15-03-2020
April: Marxist analysis of nationhood/borders/indegenity etc
Readings: 6 to 11 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 05-04-2020, 17-04-2020
May: Marxism and technology, Wage labour and capital, Grundrisse
Readings: 12 to 21 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 10-05-2020, 22-05-2020
June: Political economy
Readings: 22 to 27 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 13-06-2020, 20-06-2020, 27-06-2020
July: Political economy
Readings: 28 to 31 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 19-07-2020, 25-07-2020
August: Gender, feminism, and Marxism
Readings: 32 to 40 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 16-08-2020, 23-08-2020, 30-08-2020
September: Marxism and caste, representation, identity
Readings: 41 to 51 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 13-09-2020, 27-09-2020
October: Marxist analysis of mental health
Readings: 52 to 68 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 11-10-2020, 25-10-2020
November: History of Indian communism, land redistribution, peasantry in India
Readings: 69 to 88 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 15-11-2020, 29-11-2020
December: Friendship, relationships, in class society and socialism
Readings: 89 to 95 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 13-12-2020, 20-12-2020
Thematic plan by month for 2021
January: Propaganda and Gramsci
Readings: 96 to 99 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 17-01-2021
February: Art and Culture
Readings: 100 to 104 in the “Readings covered” list below
Notes: 21-02-2021, 28-02-2021
March: Imperialism (continued from 2020 Political Economy)
Readings: 105 to 107 in the “Readings covered” list below
April: Platform Labour
Readings: 108 to 114 in the “Readings covered” list below
May: Energy, materials, rare earths, extractivism
Readings: 115 to 122 in the “Readings covered” list below
June: Ecology, Climate Change
Readings: 123 to 133 in the “Readings covered” list below
July: Faith and Politics feat. Nationalism
Readings: 134 to 148 in the “Readings covered” list below
August: Hindutva feat. Nationalism
Readings: 149 to 154 in the “Readings covered” list below
September: Law, Justice, and Socialism
Readings: 155 to 161 in the “Readings covered” list below
October: Violence
Readings: 162 to 176 in the “Readings covered” list below
November: Strategies, Programmes, and Histories of Communisms
December: Philosophy, Epistemology, and Theory of Mind
Caucuses
Caucuses are ways for circle members to organise discussions on specific areas on which they might want to turn a socialist lens on, thus to have parallel discussions with the central monthly themes which are pan circle. Caucuses thus act as reading circles within the reading circle
Currently some of the caucuses are
Kosambi Caste Caucus
Kosambi Gender Caucus
Kosambi Art and Culture Caucus
Kosambi Law Caucus
Kosambi Food Caucus
Kosambi Political Economy Caucus
Kosambi Writing Caucus
Kosambi Sports Caucus
Kosambi Health Caucus
Kosambi Philosophy Caucus
Kosambi Pedagogy Caucus
Kosambi Ecosocialist Caucus
Kosambi Capital Reading Caucus
Kosambi Anarchism Caucus
Timeline and notes
28-01-2020
31-01-2020
13-06-2020
20-06-2020
27-06-2020
19-07-2020
25-07-2020
13-09-2020
27-09-2020
11-10-2020
25-10-2020
15-11-2020
29-11-2020
13-12-2020
20-12-2020
17-01-2021
21-02-2021
28-02-2021
14-03-2021
28-03-2021
11-04-2021
25-04-2021
16-05-2021
30-05-2021
13-06-2021
27-06-2021
18-07-2021
25-07-2021
08-08-2021
15-08-2021
29-08-2021
12-09-2021
26-09-2021
17-10-2021
31-10-2021
14-11-2021
28-11-2021
19-12-2021
26-12-2021
16-01-2022
30-01-2022
13-02-2022
27-02-2022
13-03-2022
27-03-2022
10-04-2022
24-04-2022
15-05-2022
29-05-2022
12-06-2022
26-06-2022
17-07-2022
31-07-2022
14-08-2022
28-08-2022
18-09-2022
02-10-2022
16-10-2022
30-10-2022
13-11-2022
27-11-2022
11-12-2022
25-12-2022
22-01-2023 (class)
12-02-2023 (class)
25-02-2023
19-03-2023 (class)
01-04-2023
16-04-2023 (class)
29-04-2023
Readings covered till now
(Note: Please don't read uncritically and without context. The point is not to agree with everything anyone writes. The meeting notes above will help)
January '20
1. An excerpt from the graphic novel Red Rosa
2. What is fascism and how to fight it: a collection of writings from Leon Trotsky
February '20
3. The Manifesto of the Communist Party *Read this with the 1872 preface
March '20
4. Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
5. Marxism and Politics by Ralph Miliband
April '20
6. Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism in India
7. The National Question: Rosa Luxemburg
8. The Russian Tragedy: Rosa Luxemburg
9. The Rights of Nation to Self Determination: Lenin
10. Between Red and White: Trotsky Chapter 9
11. Selected articles on Assam and NRC (from Suraj Gogoi's reading list)
* https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-narrow-nationalism-again/article29394298.ece * https://fountainink.in/essay/a-register-most-flawed
May '20
12. Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
13. Science and Freedom: D D Kosambi's Exasperating Essays
14. Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford
15. Notes from the Grundrisse (pages 690-698) on Fixed capital. Means of labour. Machine: Karl Marx
17. Lying Eyes, The Victorian roots of facial recognition by Richard Woodall
18. Artificial Scapegoat by Anupam Guha
19. Capitalism’s New Clothes by Evgeny Morozov
20. A tale of two AI cities by Melissa Hellmann
21. (We)Work is a Scam by Eliza Levinson
June '20
22. Don’t Mention the War – Mike Beggs
23. What Do Bosses Do? – Stephen Marglin
24. The Origin of Capitalism – Ellen Meiksins Wood (pp 1-37)
25. The Keynesian Counterrevolution – Mike Beggs
26. The Left in A Foxhole – Geoff Mann
27. Introduction in Simon Clarke’s Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State (pg 1-20)
July '20
28. Anti delinking: Fantasies of Secession – Jamie Merchant
29. Pro delinking: Socialize Finance – J W Mason
30. Pro delinking: A Cautious Case for Economic Nationalism – J W Mason
31. Marxist Theories of Imperialism The chapters: Introduction, Luxemburg, Lenin, Dependency Theory
June/July recommended readings
State of Development Economics – Stephen Resnick
Introduction – Perlman, F. in Rubin’s Essays in Marx’s Theory of Value
The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour
Chapter 4 – Commerce or Capitalism in The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
August '20
32. The Variety of Feminisms and their Contributions to Gender Equality, Judith Lorber
33. The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, Heidi Hartmann
34. Feminism for the 99%, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, and Tithi Bhattacharya
35. Pages 67-77 (or Part V of Chapter 2), Michelle Barrett, Women's Oppression Today
36. Capitalism and the Gay Identity, John D'Emilio
37. Transition and Abolition, Jules Joanne Gleeson
38. “Minding Their Business: The unfinished battle for sex workers' rights” by Siddharth Dube
39. The Combahee River Collective Statement
40. Kinderkommunismus by K.D. Griffiths and J.J. Gleeson
September '20
42. The Mirage of a Caste-less Society
43. Competing Narratives of Caste in the 21st Century
44. Kosambi & The Question of Caste
45. David Mosse’s paper on The Modernity of Caste
46. Introduction from the Ants Among Elephants
47. Bridging the Unholy Rift by Anand Teltumbde
48. Ambedkar, Ambedkarites, Ambedkarism by Anand Teltumbde
49. Caste, Class, and Women's Liberation by Gail Omvedt
50. Prejudice Against Reservation Policies by Sukhadeo Thorat & others
Recommended readings September
Does Untouchability exist among Muslims?
Sumit Guha's The Birth of Caste
Dumont, Guha, and The Danger of Stereotyping India
Dalit & Naxalite Movements in Andhra Pradesh
Introduction to Caste, Gender, and Indian Feminism by Anupama Rao
Caste, Class, and Property Relations by B.T. Ranadive
October '20
52. Chapter 6 and 7 of The Managed Heart by Arlie Hochschild
53. Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure by Arlie Hochschild
54. Chapter 3 and 4 of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
55. Women mental health in India by Indira Sharma and Abhishek Pathak
57. Good for nothing
58. Stop making sense by Paeder O'Grady
59. A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health by Mikkel Krause
60. How capitalism foments mental illness and discourages mental well-being
61. A history of drug advertising by Julie Donohue
62. Capitalism and mental health
63. A theory of mental health and monopoly capitalism
65. The Employment of people with mental illness by Geoffery Waghorn, Chris Lloyd
66. Disorder: Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis in Mental Health by Emma Dane York 67. The Impact of Decades of Political Violence on Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank by Thabet
Also listen to these
Policing and racial trauma with Angela Davis
Recommended extra readings for October
The concept creep of emotional labour by by Arlie Hochschild
Where social justice meets mental health
The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild
Impact of advertising psychiatric drugs
Antidepressants and advertising by Nathan Greenslit, Ted Kaptchuk
The prevalence of ptsd and depression among Gaza children by Hamza, Elsantil, et al
Mapping children’s play and violence in Kashmir by Aatina Nasir Malik
Kashmir: Through the eyes of a Grand-daughter by Khadeeja Raina
I'm a dalit woman, and my mental health matters by Christina Dhanraj
November '20
69. on Dadabhai Naoroji by Inderjeet Parmar
70. MPT Acharya: Reminiscences of a Revolutionary also, a clean transcription of this by Kosambi Circle people also, as the material is not the full story (we could not find the book) here is what happened to MPT after Morocco
71. The Indian Sociologist by A M Shah
72. History of the Anushilan Samiti
73. Virendranath Chattopadhyay
75. Naujawan Bharat Sabha and Hindustan Socialist Republican Association/Army (H.S.R.A.) by Ram Chandra
76. a. Formation of the CPI version 1920
76. b. Formation of the CPI version 1925
79. Cellular Jail: Stories of Clemency and Betrayal by Zubair Ahmed (approximately covering 1930 to 1970)
80. The United Socialist Front: The CSP and the CPI by Vineet Kaitan D'mello
81. CPI and its mass Organizations – 1936-1947 by Arindam Datta
82. Tebhaga Movement in Bengal: A Retrospect by D. Bandyopadhyay
83. The Great Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 by Iqbal Javed
85. State and the Making of Communist Politics in India, 1947-57 by J Alam
87. Communism in Kerala by Jitendra Singh
Recommended extra readings for November
The Bomb in Bengal by Peter Heehs
An Early Communist Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913–1929 by Suchetana Chattopadhyay
The Swing Back, a critique of the 40s CPI by the RSP and CPM's own telling of that era
Telengana's People's Struggles and Its Lessons by P Sundarayya
Amar Bari Tomar Bari NaxalBari by Sumit Kumar
The Left in India's Freedom Movement and in Free India by E. M. S. Namboodiripad Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement by Kavita Punjabi The Story of an Aborted Revolution: Communist Insurgency in Post independence West Bengal, 1948–50 by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
India’s Simmering Revolution by Sumanta Banerjee
From Popular Movements to Rebellion, Bengal in the 50s and the 60s by Ranabir Samaddar
December '20
89. Chapter 1 of The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin (2017 Ed), “The Private Life of Power” 90.Bad Romance by Lisa Featherstone (Content warning: there is mention of sexual violence in this)
91. Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship by Daniel J. Hruschka
92. Make way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth by Alexandra Kollontai
95. Chapter 6 of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value by David Graeber, “Marcel Mauss Revisited”
January '21
96. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 of An Antonio Gramsci Reader, selected writings, 1916-1935, Edited by David Forgacs
97. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky 98. Mythologies by Roland Barthes 99. Fascinating Fascism by Susan Sontag References For reading more on Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci by Quentin Hoare
February '21 100. The Necessity of Art by Ernst Fischer
101. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
102. The Slow Cancellation of the Future by Mark Fisher (this is an essay in Chapter 00 of the book Ghosts of my Life)
103. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction by M Madhava Prasad
104. Cine Politics: On the Political Significance of Cinema in South India by M Madhava Prasad
March '21
105. Marxist Theories of Imperialism by Anthony Brewer
Chapter 8, 9, 10,11 (do the other chapters if you have time and want to learn the historical context) (*we did this last year in July as well, also focus on the chapters on contemporary theories)
106. Empire of Capital by Ellen Woods Chapter 1, 6, 7 (do the other chapters if you have time) 107. Critical Theory and the Critique of Anti-Imperialism by Marcel Stoetzler
April '21
108. On the conditions of possibility for worker organizing in platform-based gig economies by Neils van Doorn
109. Algorithmic Management, Employment, and the Self in Gig Work by Julia Tomassetti. This is Chapter 6 of Beyond the Algorithm
110. Turkopticon by Lilly Irani et al
112. Left Populism and Platform Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford
113. Chapters 8 and 9 of Platform Capitalism in India
114. Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
May '21 115. Extractivism by Jeff Diamanti
116. Once Again on So-called “Extractivism” by Álvaro García Linera
117. Between the Devil and the Green New Deal by Jasper Bernes
118. Phantasmagorias of Energy: Toward a Critical Theory of Energy and Economy
119. Inside Out by Francis Tseng
120. Chapter 1 and 2 of Resource Radicals by Thea Riofrancos
121. Chapter 3 of Planetary Mine by Martin Arboleda
122. Resource geography II: What makes resources political? by Matt Huber
June '21
123. IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (read the executive summary of each chapter 1 to 7)
124. IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC (read the executive summary of each chapter 1 to 5)
125. Oceans that Keep Capitalism Afloat by Katy Fox-Hodess
126. Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation by Arturo Escobar
127. Chapter 1 and 2 of Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
128. Marx and Nature by McKenzie Wark
129. Why Dalits dislike environmentalists by Gail Omvedt
130. The Incorporation of Mountain Ecosystems into the Capitalist World by Wilma A Dunaway 131. The Socialist Case for Nuclear Energy
132. Nuclear scare stories are a gift to the truly lethal coal industry by George Monbiot
133. Western Ghats A Lifescape by Madhav Gadgil
July '21
134. Karl Marx and Religion by Cyril Smith
135. Introduction of A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by Karl Marx
136. Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx
137. Marxism and Ancient Indian Culture by D D Kosambi
138. a) League of Militant Atheists,
b) Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union,
and c) Hujum
139. Girl-Brides and Socio-Legal Change: Age of Consent Bill (1891) Controversy by Meera Kosambi
140. Remembering Tilak: 'The Father of India’s Revolution' (this piece is hagiography, do not read uncritically)
141. Harichand Thakur's Matua Movement and Dalit Awakening in Bengal by K K Thakur
142. Across borders, the turbulent journey of South Asia’s Matua community 143. Celebrating the ‘essence of Hinduism’: How 19th century Brahmo Samaj altered Bengali society
144. The Arya Samaj and the Antecedents of Hindu Nationalism by John Zavos
145. Navayana Buddhism and the Spread of Buddha Vihara in Maharashtra (this piece is badly edited, read with care)
146. This is why Dalit women are singing Tathagata Buddha songs in UP
148. Aligarh's "Notre Eminent Contemporain": Assessing Syed Ahmad Khan's Reformist Agenda by Mushirul Hasan
August '21
149. Part 1 and Part 2 of Hindu Nationalism: a Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot 150. Hindutva by V. D. Savarkar
151. India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right by Aijaz Ahmed
152. Hindutva’s Foreign Tie-up in the 1930s by Marzia Casolari
153. Swami Vivekananda's Construction of Hinduism by Tapan Raychaudhuri, this is the first chapter of Swami Vivekananda and the Modernization of Hinduism
154. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul
September '21
155. "Exercise of Law" and "The Rule of Law" from Whigs and Hunters by E. P. Thompson (page 245-269)
156. "The Oral Shape of the Law" in The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories by Alessandro Portelli
157. "Defining Right as Wrong: Reflections on Associational Freedom and Free Speech" in The Wages of Impunity by K.G. Kannabiran
158. Progressive and Conservative Constitutionalism by Robin West (page 642-651)
159. Law and Political Economy: Towards a Manifesto
160. On the Human Rights Question by Paul O'Connell
161. The Right to Medicines in the Age of Neoliberalism (full symposium):
a) Article
b) Responses
October '21
162. Against the Logic of the Guillotine
163. Chapter 1, 2, and 7 of the Technique of Revolution by Curzio Malaparte
164. Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism by Leon Trotsky
165. Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky
166. The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
167. Trotsky Protests Too much by Emma Goldman
168. The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act? by Noam Chomsky
169. War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler
170. Noam Chomsky on institutional violence
171. Chapter 1, 6, 7, and 8 of The Production of Hindu Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul Brass
172. Chapter 1, 2, and 6 of Rebels from the Mud Houses by George Kunnath
173. Worker Politics, Trade Unions and the Shiv Sena's Rise in Central Bombay by J Shaikh
174. Violent and Non-Violent Political Islam in a Global Context
175. Caste and Gender: Understanding Dynamics of Power and Violence
176. Chapter 10 of Direct Action: an Ethnography by David Graeber
November '21
177. First 3 chapters of Russia in revolution : an Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928
179. First 3 chapters of What is to be Done? by V. I. Lenin
180. Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy by Luxemburg
181. The April Theses by V. I. Lenin
182. Chapters 4 to 6 of Russia in revolution : an Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928
183. The Differences in the Communist Party of Germany by Pannekoek
184. Kronstatd
e) Lenin in New York Herald on Kronstatd
185. Worker's Opposition
a) Workers' Opposition by Alexandra Kollontai
b) 10th Party Congress resolutions
ii) On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation
c) Emma Goldman on Trade Unions in 1920
d) Trotsky on Trade Unions in 1922
186. Left wing communism an Infantile Disorder by V. I. Lenin (read page 10 to 105)
187. Open Letter to Comrade Lenin by Herman Gorter
188. The Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism by Bordiga
189. Workers Control by Mattick
190. Council Communism by Mark Shipway
December '21
191. Logic and Ontology
192. Epistemology
193. Doing Philosophy: From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning by Williamson
Reread readings 135 and 136
Introduction of A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right by Marx
Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx 194. Think by Simon Blackburn
195. Philosophy of Science by Samir Okasha
196. Theory of Mind
Video
Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
From 2022 new readings are numbered while repeats are mentioned
January '22 and February '22
(revision) The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx
(revision) Wage-Labor and Capital by Marx
(revision) Critique of the Gotha Program by Marx
197. The Paris Commune from the Civil War in France by Marx
198. Chapter One of Capital vol 1: Commodities
(revision) Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels
(revision) Theses on Feuerbach by Marx
(revision) Reform or Revolution by Luxemburg
(revision) Marxism and Politics by Miliband
199. The State and the Revolution by Lenin
200. State and the Revolution: Theory and Practice by Ian Mckay
201. Luxemburg versus Lenin by Mattick
(revision) What is Fascism and How to Fight It by Trotsky
202. Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
(revision) Chapters 6, 7, 8 of An Antonio Gramsci Reader, selected writings 1916-35, edited by David Forgacs
March '22 and April '22
(revision) The National Question: Rosa Luxemburg
(revision) The Rights of Nation to Self Determination: Lenin
(revision) Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism in India
203. Chapters 4,5, and 6 of Russia in revolution : an Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928
(revision) The Russian Tragedy: Rosa Luxemburg
(revision) Between Red and White: Trotsky Chapter 9
(revision) Selected articles on Assam and NRC (from Suraj Gogoi's reading list)
* https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-narrow-nationalism-again/article29394298.ece
* https://fountainink.in/essay/a-register-most-flawed
204. Part 3 of Hindu Nationalism: a Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot (revision) Hindu Nationalism: a Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot
(revision) The Arya Samaj and the Antecedents of Hindu Nationalism by John Zavos
(revision) Aligarh's "Notre Eminent Contemporain": Assessing Syed Ahmad Khan's Reformist Agenda by Mushirul Hasan
(revision) Marxist Theories of Imperialism by Anthony Brewer
(revision) Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul
May '22 and June '22
205. Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(revision) Caste, Class, and Women's Liberation by Gail Omvedt
(revision) Prejudice Against Reservation Policies by Sukhadeo Thorat & others
(revision) Does Untouchability exist among Muslims?
(revision) Dalit & Naxalite Movements in Andhra Pradesh by Ajay Gudavarthy
(revision) Dumont, Guha, and the Danger of Stereotyping India by Krzysztof Iwanek
206. Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
207. Feminist Philosophy (Parts 1-3) - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
208. Chapter 6 of Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon
209. Annihilation of Caste by B. R. Ambedkar
210. Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 of Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present by Sumit Guha
211. Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 of Caste, Culture, and Hegemony: Social Domination of Colonial Bengal by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Video
Gender Critical - Contrapoints
212. Caste in Modern India: A Reader by Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar Read these chapters of this book: Chapters 2, 3, 6, 11, 13 from Volume 1. Chapter 1, 5, 7, 10, 11 from Volume 2
Following authors are covered: Dirks, Bayly, Sumit Guha, Bernard Cohn, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, S J Patel, Nandini Gooptu, Anupama Rao, Sumit Sarkar, Jaffrelot
213. Castes of Mind by Dirks (revision) Kosambi and the Question of Caste by Kumkum Roy
214. The Social Basis of the Woman Question by Alexandra Kollontai
215. What is Socialist Feminism? by Barbara Ehrenreich (revision) The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism by Heidi Hartmann
(revision) Capitalism and the Gay Identity by John D'Emilio
(revision) Transition and Abolition by Jules Joanne Gleeson