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This list is not meant to be comprehensive. We have included a range of perspectives on caste and on life narratives in India, and though this list focuses on scholarship, it also includes a few examples of actual life narratives.
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Arnold, David, and Stuart Blackburn, editors. Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Indiana UP, 2004.
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Karlekar, Malavika. Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women. Oxford UP, 1991.
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Kumar, Raj. Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation and Identity. Orient Blackswan, 2010.
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