All societies are based on imagined hierarchy which is detrimental to human civilizations across the world. What is alarming about it is that more than half of the population of the world has beenperipherized, subjugated, and oppressedfor millennia that has crippled the advancement ofhumanity in general and marginalized sections of societies in particular. Even in the twenty first century, human world is reeling under the specter of caste and gender discrimination that has become a matter of grave concern for those who envisage just, harmonious and better world for the whole human race on this planet. The festschrift Mapping Caste and Gender is divided into five sections according to the genres research papers deal with. It exclusively deals with gender and caste based issues and identities. The contributors of research papers have argued that both caste and gender are not singular epistemological entities, rather,they are compounded by intersectionality of ethnicity, religion, region and class. They have explored the seemingly inexplicable paradoxes of human beings through the characters in imaginative writings as well as discursive legal texts and subtexts. Sixteen research paperstogether from Indian and abroad provide broader spectrum of interrelated issues on caste and gender. We hope, this anthology comprising select research papers would inform all those engaged in academia and socio-political activism to further egalitarian and humane values for enhancement of life of theentire humanspecies.