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Feb 15, 2026, 7:18:00 AM (5 days ago) Feb 15

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Dearest friends:

It's been long in the waiting, but here it is. I am very honored to announce that my new book, Caste A Global Story, is published in all the major Anglosphere regions.

The recent one in the US is out too. As some of you may know, I did several book events in the UK and Europe. South Asia and the US are pending.

The first institutional book launch is happening at Penn in April on Bhim Jayanti. If there are other possibilities, I would be very interested to come and discuss the book. The book has received mostly positive reviews across academia and media.

A bit about the book:

This book has been ten years in the making (as many of you know)—traveling through nearly 15 countries, listening to Dalit communities everywhere from migrant laborers in the Gulf to tech workers in Silicon Valley and the East Coast, organizers in the UK, and the descendants of indentured laborers in Trinidad. Every conversation deepened my understanding of how caste operates across borders and generations. In addition, I explore the notions of solidarities between the Dalit and Black movements, placing a critical lens on this much-touted historical literary relationship drawing from archives in Marathwada and Washington D.C.

The book was voted History Today's Book of the Year has received largely positive reviews across the academic journals and mainstream media.

I believe there's a caste story that our present moment urgently needs us to reckon with. These neo-fascist times demand that we see with a new lens—drawing on the wisdom and practices of those who've been in this struggle for generations—the outcasted community who has shown what it takes to sustain and march on.

If you're able to grab a copy (there's a 30% discount—flyer attached!), I'd be so grateful.

Since the community of scholars working on the issues of caste is small yet expanding, I rely on your generosity to put a word about the book out there. If you can review, recommend, assign it to courses, endorse it, and send to various groups that you are part of I shall be deeply honored.

Hello, from a rather cold Philadelphia.

Jai Bhim.

SURAJ MILIND YENGDE D.Phil (Oxon), Ph.D. (Wits)

Caste A Global Story — Book of the Year

discount code: ADISTA5

https://linktr.ee/surajyengde

SURAJ MILIND YENGDE D.Phil (Oxon), Ph.D. (Wits)

Caste A Global Story — Book of the Year

discount code: ADISTA5

https://linktr.ee/surajyengde

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