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The “Dominant Caste” category features books that examine how caste-based power is accumulated, maintained, and contested, focusing on groups that hold disproportionate social, economic, and political influence. Drawing on scholarship (including M. N. Srinivas’s concept in South Asian contexts) as well as journalism, memoir, and fiction, these works explore themes such as land and resource control, access to education and state institutions, electoral politics, media and cultural hegemony, everyday privilege, and the experiences of communities marginalized by dominant groups. The category includes critical analyses and personal narratives from both within and outside dominant castes, highlighting dynamics of complicity, reform, and resistance and tracing intersections with gender, class, religion, and region. While rooted in caste studies—especially in India—it also invites comparative perspectives on analogous structures of social dominance in other societies.

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