Savari by The Shared Mirror

Savari: Adivasi, Dalit, Bahujan Women Conversing is a groundbreaking collection that captures a decade of powerful conversations among women whose voices have been historically silenced. Born from an online platform that brought together adivasi, dalit, and bahujan women, this book represents an extraordinary act of self-definition and collective expression.
For the first time, these women claim space to speak to and for themselves—not through the filters of academia, media, or NGOs, but on their own terms. The conversations challenge brahminical frameworks, refuse easy commodification, and document the complex realities of navigating caste, gender, and class in contemporary India.
This collection offers unmediated access to discussions that academia wanted to study, journalists wanted to cover, and institutions wanted to control—but which remained fiercely autonomous. These are voices speaking across barriers that were meant to keep them apart, creating bridges between generations and communities through the radical act of conversation.
Raw, reflective, and politically urgent, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the lived experiences and intellectual labor of bahujan women who are rewriting the terms of their own visibility. It’s a testament to what becomes possible when marginalized women refuse silence and claim the right to converse.