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

Title Page
Praise for The Trauma of Caste
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Author’s Note
Introduction: The Wound as Teacher
	This Moment
	The Path to Freedom
Meditation I: The Existence of Caste
	Caste Is Suffering
	Caste Is Trauma
	Caste in the Diaspora
	The Rise of the Caste Equity Civil Rights Movement
	Moving Beyond Brown
	What’s in a Name
Meditation II: The Source of Caste
	Brahminism
	The Textbook Battle
	Where It Is Written
	Caste in Hinduism
	Caste in Shramanic Faiths
	Caste in Abrahamic Faiths
	A Duty to Question
	Savarna Fragility
	The RAIN Framework
Meditation III: From Wounds to Liberation
	Caste and Carceral Culture
	Caste and Gender
	Caste and Sexual Violence
	Caste Stress and Suicide
	Restoration, in Memoriam
	Caste and Environment
	Caste and IT
	#Smash Brahminical Patriarchy
	Caste and Genocide
Meditation IV: The End of Caste
	Kin
	Ancestors
	Choice and Consent
	Survivorship
	The Final Frontier: The Imaginary
Conclusion: Love in a Time of Genocide
Epilogue: Black Feminist Buddhist Response to the Trauma of Caste
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendix I: Caste Abolition Ancestors
Appendix II: Lineages
Appendix III: Caste Data across South Asia
Appendix IV: Unlearning Caste Supremacy Worksheets
	Worksheet 1: What Is Your Caste Origin Story?
	Worksheet 2: What Are Your Commitments to Caste Abolition?
	Worksheet 3: How Can You Be an Ambedkarite Today?
Appendix V: Somatic Exercises
Glossary
Endnotes
Author’s Note
	Meditation I
	Meditation II
	Meditation III
	Meditation IV
	Conclusion
	Epilogue
	Appendix I
	Appendix II
	Appendix III
	Appendix V
Index
About the Author
About North Atlantic Books