Akshaya Kumar is Professor at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. India. Having more than three decades of post-graduate teaching and research experience, his widespread literary and critical scholarship extends to the fields of Comparative Indian literature, Translation Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. He has extensively published in journals like South Asian Review, Indian Literature, Translation Today, and Biblio. Major books to his credit include, Poetry, Politics and Culture: Indian Texts and Contexts (Routledge: Delhi, New York and London, 2009). and A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment (Rawat: Delhi and Jaipur, 2004). His co-edited volumes include Cultural Studies in India: Essays on History, Politics & Literature (Routledge: New Delhi, New York and London, 2016), Dialogues Across Languages: Theory & Practice of Translation in India (Panjab University Publication Bureau: Chandigarh, 2016). Translated text to his credit include, Gau-Dhuli Vela: Punjabi Translations of Sudeep Sen’s English Poems (Autumn Press, Patiala, 2021). He is at present writing A Critical History of Punjabi Literature to be published by Orient Blackswan.Amandeep Kaur is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She earned his doctoral thesis (2018) from the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh, India mapping the growth of modern Indian poetry from its progressive phase during and after the colonial period, identifying its transformational propensities with a focus on its representation of resistance through the matrices of caste, class and gender in the post-progressive phase. She has also published two papers titled “Alienation of the Other: Examining Marginal Narratives in Select Punjabi Films” and “Kisan Protests in Punjab 1907–2021: A Literary Lineage of Resistance” in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India and Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab respectively in 2023. She is currently working on the dialectics of folk and ideology in Kirti Kaav.

• Introduction.- Bahirana” and Ganasangeet: Towards an Aesthetics of Progressive Literature.- The “Progressive Cosmopolis” in Assamese Poetry (1890–1940): Colonial Modernity, Nationality, and Regional Identities.- Independence and its Many Egalitarian Conceptions: Film Lyrics and Poetic.- From Green to Red: A Synoptic Genealogy of the Progressive Movement in Odisha.- Progressive Poetry in Gujarati.- Literary Criticism and Poetry in the Progressive Tamil Literary Magazines, 1950-1980.- Revolutionary Romanticism to Film Lyrics: The Progressive Cosmopolis of Malayalam Poetry.- The Progressive Turn in Malayalam Poetry.- Political Phonocentrism and Lyric Freedom: Sweccha and Telugu Progressive Poetry.- The Making of Progressive Stream in Modern Hindi Poetry.- The Role of Progressive Poetic Movement in the Development of a Progressive Cosmopolis in Hindi Poetry.- Gender and Progressive Poetics: Hir, Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti.- The Progressive Side of Shiv Kumar Batalvi.- Progressive Writers’ Movement (1930-60): A Perspective on Punjabi Poetry.- The Protest Poetry in Marathi: The State Language in India.- Tracing the History of Progressive Sentiment in Kashmiri Literature: A Study of Select Twentieth Century Kashmiri Poets.- Absent Ideology: A Critical Study of Post-Independence Indian English Poetry.

Akshaya Kumar is Professor at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. India. Having more than three decades of post-graduate teaching and research experience, his widespread literary and critical scholarship extends to the fields of Comparative Indian literature, Translation Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. He has extensively published in journals like South Asian Review, Indian Literature, Translation Today, and Biblio. Major books to his credit include, Poetry, Politics and Culture: Indian Texts and Contexts (Routledge: Delhi, New York and London, 2009). and A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment (Rawat: Delhi and Jaipur, 2004). His co-edited volumes include Cultural Studies in India: Essays on History, Politics & Literature (Routledge: New Delhi, New York and London, 2016), Dialogues Across Languages: Theory & Practice of Translation in India (Panjab University Publication Bureau: Chandigarh, 2016). Translated text to his credit include, Gau-Dhuli Vela: Punjabi Translations of Sudeep Sen’s English Poems (Autumn Press, Patiala, 2021). He is at present writing A Critical History of Punjabi Literature to be published by Orient Blackswan.Amandeep Kaur is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She earned his doctoral thesis (2018) from the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh, India mapping the growth of modern Indian poetry from its progressive phase during and after the colonial period, identifying its transformational propensities with a focus on its representation of resistance through the matrices of caste, class and gender in the post-progressive phase. She has also published two papers titled “Alienation of the Other: Examining Marginal Narratives in Select Punjabi Films” and “Kisan Protests in Punjab 1907–2021: A Literary Lineage of Resistance” in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India and Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab respectively in 2023. She is currently working on the dialectics of folk and ideology in Kirti Kaav.

• Introduction.- Bahirana” and Ganasangeet: Towards an Aesthetics of Progressive Literature.- The “Progressive Cosmopolis” in Assamese Poetry (1890–1940): Colonial Modernity, Nationality, and Regional Identities.- Independence and its Many Egalitarian Conceptions: Film Lyrics and Poetic.- From Green to Red: A Synoptic Genealogy of the Progressive Movement in Odisha.- Progressive Poetry in Gujarati.- Literary Criticism and Poetry in the Progressive Tamil Literary Magazines, 1950-1980.- Revolutionary Romanticism to Film Lyrics: The Progressive Cosmopolis of Malayalam Poetry.- The Progressive Turn in Malayalam Poetry.- Political Phonocentrism and Lyric Freedom: Sweccha and Telugu Progressive Poetry.- The Making of Progressive Stream in Modern Hindi Poetry.- The Role of Progressive Poetic Movement in the Development of a Progressive Cosmopolis in Hindi Poetry.- Gender and Progressive Poetics: Hir, Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti.- The Progressive Side of Shiv Kumar Batalvi.- Progressive Writers’ Movement (1930-60): A Perspective on Punjabi Poetry.- The Protest Poetry in Marathi: The State Language in India.- Tracing the History of Progressive Sentiment in Kashmiri Literature: A Study of Select Twentieth Century Kashmiri Poets.- Absent Ideology: A Critical Study of Post-Independence Indian English Poetry.

Akshaya Kumar is Professor at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. India. Having more than three decades of post-graduate teaching and research experience, his widespread literary and critical scholarship extends to the fields of Comparative Indian literature, Translation Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. He has extensively published in journals like South Asian Review, Indian Literature, Translation Today, and Biblio. Major books to his credit include, Poetry, Politics and Culture: Indian Texts and Contexts (Routledge: Delhi, New York and London, 2009). and A.K. Ramanujan: In Profile and Fragment (Rawat: Delhi and Jaipur, 2004). His co-edited volumes include Cultural Studies in India: Essays on History, Politics & Literature (Routledge: New Delhi, New York and London, 2016), Dialogues Across Languages: Theory & Practice of Translation in India (Panjab University Publication Bureau: Chandigarh, 2016). Translated text to his credit include, Gau-Dhuli Vela: Punjabi Translations of Sudeep Sen’s English Poems (Autumn Press, Patiala, 2021). He is at present writing A Critical History of Punjabi Literature to be published by Orient Blackswan.Amandeep Kaur is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. She earned his doctoral thesis (2018) from the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh, India mapping the growth of modern Indian poetry from its progressive phase during and after the colonial period, identifying its transformational propensities with a focus on its representation of resistance through the matrices of caste, class and gender in the post-progressive phase. She has also published two papers titled “Alienation of the Other: Examining Marginal Narratives in Select Punjabi Films” and “Kisan Protests in Punjab 1907–2021: A Literary Lineage of Resistance” in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India and Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab respectively in 2023. She is currently working on the dialectics of folk and ideology in Kirti Kaav.

• Introduction.- Bahirana” and Ganasangeet: Towards an Aesthetics of Progressive Literature.- The “Progressive Cosmopolis” in Assamese Poetry (1890–1940): Colonial Modernity, Nationality, and Regional Identities.- Independence and its Many Egalitarian Conceptions: Film Lyrics and Poetic.- From Green to Red: A Synoptic Genealogy of the Progressive Movement in Odisha.- Progressive Poetry in Gujarati.- Literary Criticism and Poetry in the Progressive Tamil Literary Magazines, 1950-1980.- Revolutionary Romanticism to Film Lyrics: The Progressive Cosmopolis of Malayalam Poetry.- The Progressive Turn in Malayalam Poetry.- Political Phonocentrism and Lyric Freedom: Sweccha and Telugu Progressive Poetry.- The Making of Progressive Stream in Modern Hindi Poetry.- The Role of Progressive Poetic Movement in the Development of a Progressive Cosmopolis in Hindi Poetry.- Gender and Progressive Poetics: Hir, Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti.- The Progressive Side of Shiv Kumar Batalvi.- Progressive Writers’ Movement (1930-60): A Perspective on Punjabi Poetry.- The Protest Poetry in Marathi: The State Language in India.- Tracing the History of Progressive Sentiment in Kashmiri Literature: A Study of Select Twentieth Century Kashmiri Poets.- Absent Ideology: A Critical Study of Post-Independence Indian English Poetry.