Outcaste Bombay

"This inter-disciplinary book draws on rare English and Marathi language sources — including novels, poems, and manifestoes — and contributes to debates in the fields of South Asian history, global Marxism, social anthropology, urban studies, labor studies, Dalit studies, and literature."

"Highlighting the nexus among caste, class, language, urban space, and the tensions within these categories, as well as how caste and class shaped the urban environment, this remarkable book contributes significantly to social/labor history and urban studies."

"A fascinating study of the politics of urban poor in the rapidly shifting landscape of twentieth-century Bombay city...it offers a glimpse of [the city] as it is lived, reshaped, and appropriated by its Dalit inhabitants, and makes a great contribution to the bourgeoning scholarship on Dalit labor and Bombay city."

"A moving account of the symbiosis of caste and capitalism in the city."

"richly researched and perceptively argued"

"Offers valuable lessons in how the particularities of prejudice are reproduced in the universalizing language not only of planning but also, perversely, of class consciousness and revolution."

"Opens up remarkable new archives, astutely analyzing the political imagination of Bombay’s Dalits confronting colonialism and capitalism."