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• Slaves of the soil in southern India. ([Vepery, Madras], 1895), by Thomas B. Pandian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pariah dans l'humanité (A. Lacroix et Cie, 1876), by Louis Jacolliot (page images at HathiTrust)

• While Sewing Sandals: or, Tales of a Telugu Pariah Tribe (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• A Study of Caste (originally published 1922; reprinted New Delhi and Chennai: Asian Educational Services, 2003), by P. Lakshmi Narasu (multiple formats at archive.org`)
• Dalit Studies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), ed. by Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, contrib. by Gopal Guru, P. Sanal Mohan, Chinnaiah Jangam, Raj Kumar Hans, Laura Brueck, Sāmbayya Guṇḍimeḍa, D. Shyam Babu, and Surinder S. Jodhka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Together With an Examination of the Names and Figures Shown in the Census Report, 1882: Being an Attempt to Classify on a Functional Basis All the Main Castes of the United Provinces, and to Explain Their Gradations of Rank and the Process of Their Formation (Prayagraj: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885), by John Collinson Nesfield
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• A Study of Caste (Chennai: K. V. Raghavulu, 1922), by P. Lakshmi Narasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Discovery of the Sect of the Banians, Containing Their History, Law, Liturgy, Castes, Customs, and Ceremonies (taken from v.3 of Picart's "Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World"), by Henry Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The People of India (second edition; Kolkata and Shimla: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1915), by Herbert Hope Risley, ed. by William Crooke
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• The social organization in North-East India in Buddha's time (University of Calcutta [Press], 1920), by Richard Fick and SÌ£isÌ£ira-KumaÌ„ra Maitra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Caste in India, a bibliography. (Washington, 1948), by William H. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clan, caste, and club. (Van Nostrand, 1963), by Francis L. K. Hsu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian moral instruction and caste problems; solutions (Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Alexander Hay Benton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A comparative analysis of the jajmani system. (Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J.J. Augustin, 1959), by T. O. Beidelman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les castes dans l'Inde. (E. Leroux, 1896), by E. Senart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India. (Trübner & co., 1869), by H. M. Elliot and John Beames (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of caste in India; evidence of the laws of Manu on the social conditions in India during the third century A. D., interpreted and examined, with an appendix on radical defects of ethnology. (Taylor & Carpenter, 1909), by Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The peoples of India (University Press;, 1913), by J. D. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hindu tribes and castes ... (Thacker, Spink & co.;, 1872), by M. A. Sherring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twilight in India (Philosophical Library, 1949), by Gervée Baronti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien zur geschichte der gotras (O. Harrassowitz, 1914), by Heinrich Zimmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Summaries of some essays, etc., relating to census and caste. (India Census Commission?, 1910), by India. Census Commissioner and Edward Albert Gait (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hindu castes and sects. An exposition of the origin of the Hindu caste system and the bearing of the sects toward each other and towards other religious systems (Thacker, Spink and co., 1896), by Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais sur le régime des castes (F. Alcan, 1927), by Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De kastenmaatschappij in Britsch-Indië en op Bali. (P. Noordhoff, 1920), by C. G. Lekkerkerker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ethnographie dravidienne. Les castes du sud de l'Inde ... ([Paris], 1864), by Julien Vinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das altindische Volkstum und seine Bedeutung für die Gesellschaftskunde. (Kommissions Verlag und Druck von J.P. Bachem, 1899), by Joseph Dahlmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book of castes and tribes employed on tea estates in north-east India. Compiled in the office of the secretaries of the Tea Districts Labour Association, Calcutta. (Printed by A. Rome at the Catholic Orphan Press, 1924), by Tea Districts Labour Association (India) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian caste (Times of India office; [etc., etc.], 1877), by John Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Census of India, 1901. Volume I. India. Ethnographic appendices, being the data upon which the caste chapter of the Report is based (Off. of the Supt. of govt. printing, India, 1903), by India. Census Commissioner and Herbert Hope Risley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays and lectures on the industrial development of India, and other Indian subjects (1880-1906) (W. Newman, 1906), by Pramatha Nath Bose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Answers to Swarajists. ([publisher not identified], 1909), by N. L. Pat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essais sur le régime des castes. (F. Alcan, 1908), by Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cātivēr̲r̲umaiyum pōliccaivarum / Cuvāmi Vētācalam en̲n̲um Mar̲aimaḷaiyatikalāl iyar̲r̲appaṭṭ[atu]. (Ti. Em. Accukkūṭattir̲ patippiṭappaṭṭatu, 1926), by Mar̲aimalaiyaṭikaḷ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions (Trübner, 1868), by J. Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caste conferences & national progress : presidential address delivered by Sachchidananda Sinha at the thirty-fifth session of the All-India Kayastha Conference held at Delhi on the 29th March 1929. (s.n., 1929), by Sachchidananda Sinha and India) All-India Kayastha Conference (1929 : Delhi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index to Hindu tribes and castes as represented in Benares. (Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1897), by M. A. Sherring and Nānak Chand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social and military position of the ruling caste in ancient India, as represented by the Sanskit epic; with an appendix on the status of woman. (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers, 1889), by Edward Washburn Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur les castes dans l'Inde. (Imprimeur du Gouvernment, 1870), by A. Esquer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des castes de l'Inde, ou Lettres sur les Hindous : à l'occasion de la Tragédie du Paria de M. Casimir Delavigne : suivies de notes sur les mots et les usages de l'Inde, dont il est fait mention dans cette Tragédie. (Jeune homme-Crémière, 1822), by Joseph Morénas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold, sport, and coffee planting in Mysore. (A. Constable, 1894), by Robert H. Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The caste system : its origin and growth, its social evils and their remedies (Arya Pradeshik Pratinidhi Sabha, 1922), by Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and progress of the religion and institutions of India; collected, translated into English, and illustrated by notes. Chiefly for the use of students and others in India. (Williams and Norgate, 1858), by J. Muir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions. (Trübner, 1863), by J. Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethnography : castes and tribes (K.J. Trübner, 1912), by Jervoise Athelstane Baines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The social and military position of the ruling caste in ancient India, as represented by the Sanscrit epic. (Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1889), by Edward W. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law and custom of Hindoo castes within the Dekhun provinces subject to the presidency of Bombay, chiefly affecting civil suits. (W.H. Allen and co., 1868), by Arthur Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion & institutions (Oriental Publishers & Distributors, 1976), by J. Muir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Refutation of the arguments upon which the Brahmanical institution of caste is founded ([n.p.], 1839), by Aśvaghoṣa, Sūbajī Bāpū, and Lancelot Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Borradaile's Gujarat caste rules. Published from the original answers of the castes with the sanction of Her Imperial Majesty's High court of judicature of Bombay. (Nirnaya-Ságar Press, 1884), by Harry Borradaile and Munguldas Nathoobhoi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sepoy Rebellion. (Alexander Heylin, 1857), by William Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inde française : l'histoire des origines et du développement des castes de l'Inde. (Au siège de la société, 1884), by C. Schoebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of the castes and tribes found in India : compiled from the 1881 census reports for the various provinces, excluding Burmah and native states of the Empire (Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1885), by Eustace J. Kitts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh. (Office of the superintendent of government printing, 1906), by William Crooke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The people of India (Thacker, Spink & Co.;, 1908), by Herbert Hope Risley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the Vaisyas of Bengal. (K. P. Mookerjee, 1902), by Promatha Nath Mullick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Missions to Hindus : a contribution to the study of missionary methods (Longmans, Green, 1908), by Louis George Mylne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social and military position of the ruling caste in ancient India, as represented by the Sanskrit epic (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers, 1889), by Edward Washburn Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the national custom of British India, known as Caste, Varna, or Jati. (Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1881), by Robert Needham Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarques sur le régime des castes. ([F. Alcan], 1901), by Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur les castes dans l'Inde (A. Saligny, Impr. de government, 1871), by A. Esquer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian caste. (Printed at the Anglo-Lusitano Press, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and progress of the religion and institutions of India (Williams and Norgate; [etc., etc.], 1858), by J. Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory and practice of caste; being an inquiry into the effects of caste on the institutions and probable destinies of the Anglo-Indian empire. (Smith, Elder & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1853), by Benjamin Atkinson Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twilight in India (Philosophical Library, 1949), by Gerveé Baronte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Caste, in its religious and civil character, opposed to Christianity (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847), by Joseph Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caste its supposed origin; its history; its effects; the duty of government, Hindus, and Christians with respect to it; and its prospects. (Christian Vernacular Education Society, 1887), by John Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monograph. (Cochin govt. press, 1905), by Cochin (India : State). Ethnographic survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on caste : read at the Shimoga Literary Union on the 24th July 1880 (V.B. Soobbiah & Sons, 1899), by Earnest Truth-Seeker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The changing position of the Negro and other minorities in the United States (American Institute of Pacific Relations, 1949), by Israel Gerver, Indian Council of World Affairs, and Conference on Indian-American Relations (1949 : New Delhi) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monograph. (Cochin Govt. Press, 1905), by Cochin (Princely State). Ethnographical Survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Majmūʼ sīāq] (1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on Hinduism, its formation and future. (Taylor & Carpenter, 1909), by Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inquiries made by the Bishop of Madras : regarding the removal of caste prejudices and practices, in the native church of South India ; together with the replies of the missionaries and native clergy sent thereto. (Vepery, Madras : Printed at the Christian knowledge society's press, 1868., 1868), by Frederick Gell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India; being an amplified edition of the original supplemental glossary of Indian terms, by the late Sir Henry M. Elliot. Ed., rev., and re-arranged by John Beames. (London : Trübner, 1869., 1869), by H. M. Elliot and John Beames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book of castes and tribes employed on tea estates in north-east India. Compiled in the office of the secretaries of the Tea Districts Labour Association, Calcutta. (Printed by A. Rome at the Catholic Orphan Press, 1924), by Tea Districts Labour Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The criminal castes of India ... (1920), by Elbert Marston Moffatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Out from India's outcastes (Board of Foreign Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1914), by A. G. McGraw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work for the depressed classes in India (Methodist Publishing House, 1892), by E. W. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chaturvarnya-Siksha : with the Ved-Drishti, and a critical introd. (K.D. Seth, Newul Kishore Press, 1927), by Durgāprasāda Dvivedī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Castes In India, by B. R. Ambedkar (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Peoples of India, by J. D. Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore: With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter, by Robert H. Elliot (Gutenberg ebook)

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