Zakir Hussain is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ladakh, India.Ghulam Rabani is Senior Doctoral Fellow of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Rajbir Samal is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

• About the ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian LiteratureZakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani, and Rajbir SamalPart 1: Violence, Caste, and Gender1. Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resistance: The Politics of Dalit Identity in C. Ayyappan’s WritingsChristina Romeo (Christ Academy Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru)2. Charred Bodies, Charred Narratives: Violence, Memory, and Truth in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy GoddessSaundarya (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)3. Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy GoddessDhanya V Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)4. Locating the Articulations of Gendered Violence in A Leaf in the StormAiswarya Sanath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)Part 2: Postcolonial Fractures and Ethnic Violence5. Home and the Nation: Representing Marginalities in the Postcolonial Indian English NovelSaman Ashfaq (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal)6. Anthologizing India’s Northeast: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Violence in the RegionNiborna Hazarika (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi)7. Violence, Vulnerability, and Ethics in The Story of a Brief Marriage: Bearing Witness to Marginalized SufferingNavneet Kumar (Mount Royal University)8. Quiet Devastations: Sri Lankan Ethnic Violence and Broken Intimacies in Selvadurai and ArudpragasamMadhurima Nayak (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)Part 3: Place, People, and Environmental Violence9. Post-Millennial Indian Fiction and The Discourse of ToxicityRahul Vijayan and Nagendra Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)10. Intersecting Injustices: Green Criminology and Postcolonial Marginalities in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleRanjit Mandal (Rural Institute of Higher Studies in Bhograi) and Debjani Banerjee (Beheragora Polytechnic)11. Bastuhara: Historiographical Recovery of the Ecological Subaltern in The Hungry TideGunja Nandi (Texas Christian University)12. Violence at the Wake of Capitalist Modernity: A Literary Study of People Vis-à-vis the Rivers of BengalIndra Sankar Ghatak and Bhagyasree Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi)Index

Zakir Hussain is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ladakh, India.Ghulam Rabani is Senior Doctoral Fellow of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Rajbir Samal is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

• About the ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian LiteratureZakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani, and Rajbir SamalPart 1: Violence, Caste, and Gender1. Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resistance: The Politics of Dalit Identity in C. Ayyappan’s WritingsChristina Romeo (Christ Academy Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru)2. Charred Bodies, Charred Narratives: Violence, Memory, and Truth in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy GoddessSaundarya (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)3. Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy GoddessDhanya V Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)4. Locating the Articulations of Gendered Violence in A Leaf in the StormAiswarya Sanath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)Part 2: Postcolonial Fractures and Ethnic Violence5. Home and the Nation: Representing Marginalities in the Postcolonial Indian English NovelSaman Ashfaq (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal)6. Anthologizing India’s Northeast: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Violence in the RegionNiborna Hazarika (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi)7. Violence, Vulnerability, and Ethics in The Story of a Brief Marriage: Bearing Witness to Marginalized SufferingNavneet Kumar (Mount Royal University)8. Quiet Devastations: Sri Lankan Ethnic Violence and Broken Intimacies in Selvadurai and ArudpragasamMadhurima Nayak (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)Part 3: Place, People, and Environmental Violence9. Post-Millennial Indian Fiction and The Discourse of ToxicityRahul Vijayan and Nagendra Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)10. Intersecting Injustices: Green Criminology and Postcolonial Marginalities in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleRanjit Mandal (Rural Institute of Higher Studies in Bhograi) and Debjani Banerjee (Beheragora Polytechnic)11. Bastuhara: Historiographical Recovery of the Ecological Subaltern in The Hungry TideGunja Nandi (Texas Christian University)12. Violence at the Wake of Capitalist Modernity: A Literary Study of People Vis-à-vis the Rivers of BengalIndra Sankar Ghatak and Bhagyasree Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi)Index