Indrani Karmakar is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and prior to that, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her works have previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Wasafiri, and she is the co-author of Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love (2021).

• Introduction: Of Motherhood, Metaphor and Materiality Chapter 1Reluctant Mothers? : Maternal Subjectivity and Ambivalence Chapter 2Cast(e)ing Motherhood: Caste, Marginality and Maternal Agency Chapter 3Mothering Daughters: Vicissitudes of Mother–Daughter Relationships Chapter 4Motherhood and Diaspora: Remembering and Remaking Home Chapter 5Maternal Non-mothers: Motherhood Beyond Biology CodaMoving the Maternal: Towards Solidarity

Indrani Karmakar is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany and prior to that, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her works have previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Wasafiri, and she is the co-author of Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love (2021).

• Introduction: Of Motherhood, Metaphor and Materiality Chapter 1Reluctant Mothers? : Maternal Subjectivity and Ambivalence Chapter 2Cast(e)ing Motherhood: Caste, Marginality and Maternal Agency Chapter 3Mothering Daughters: Vicissitudes of Mother–Daughter Relationships Chapter 4Motherhood and Diaspora: Remembering and Remaking Home Chapter 5Maternal Non-mothers: Motherhood Beyond Biology CodaMoving the Maternal: Towards Solidarity