Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar's anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature's fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar's anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature's fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar’s anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature’s fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

The first volume of Dalit plays available in English translation, this collection bridges the gap to unheard voices within Dalit literature.Dalit Dialogues gathers together eleven Dalit plays originally written in a broad scope of Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. The plays in the collection span both a wide range of provinces and time periods and demonstrate a wide range of dramatic conventions and theatrical forms.In turning its attention towards plays and theatre, this book opens out an area of study that is largely underrepresented in Indian Dalit literature. As the first book of its kind, Dalit Dialogues aims to highlight the importance of the discipline within the context of the wider Dalit movement in India.Edited by Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant, this collection introduces Dalit playwrights – all of them writing in the vernacular – to an English-speaking readership. His critical introduction is accompanied by translators’ notes, each providing wider context and a critical apparatus for students to explore the language and themes of the plays.Written for translators, future researchers and students of Global theatre, this collection contributes to the development of the literary aesthetics of resistance by addressing the depiction of caste, class and gender-based marginalisation within the framework of postcolonial Indian theatre.

This anthology offers a collection of three appealing plays, written by Dalit playwrights, that explore the politics of caste discrimination through intense plots, captivating dialogues, and remarkable characterisations. While exposing the ground reality of the Indian caste system with historical reference, the playwrights give an insight into the dynamics of caste in the contemporary socio-political backdrop. With their thematic diversities, the plays are directed towards a singular goal: the annihilation of caste-based hierarchies to bring in social parity. The plays included in this volume were originally written in Marathi and translated into English. Challenging the stereotyped epistemological assumptions, the anthology prepares the readers for discussions of the aesthetics of Dalit plays and their performances, exploring various ontological issues surrounding the genre.

Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India.  The discussion extensively delves into the historical background, context and aesthetics of Dalit drama and theatre from epistemological viewpoints. To illustrate the subtleties of caste, class and gender in the pan-Indian scenario, the book includes textual understandings of specific Dalit plays, available in English translation, originally written in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali, covering diverse regions of India. The inclusion of full-length interviews, conducted by the author, of all the living playwrights whose texts have been taken up for analysis, is another substantial facet of this study.

Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India.  The discussion extensively delves into the historical background, context and aesthetics of Dalit drama and theatre from epistemological viewpoints. To illustrate the subtleties of caste, class and gender in the pan-Indian scenario, the book includes textual understandings of specific Dalit plays, available in English translation, originally written in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali, covering diverse regions of India. The inclusion of full-length interviews, conducted by the author, of all the living playwrights whose texts have been taken up for analysis, is another substantial facet of this study.

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar's anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature's fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar's anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature's fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar’s anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature’s fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

The first volume of Dalit plays available in English translation, this collection bridges the gap to unheard voices within Dalit literature.Dalit Dialogues gathers together eleven Dalit plays originally written in a broad scope of Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. The plays in the collection span both a wide range of provinces and time periods and demonstrate a wide range of dramatic conventions and theatrical forms.In turning its attention towards plays and theatre, this book opens out an area of study that is largely underrepresented in Indian Dalit literature. As the first book of its kind, Dalit Dialogues aims to highlight the importance of the discipline within the context of the wider Dalit movement in India.Edited by Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant, this collection introduces Dalit playwrights – all of them writing in the vernacular – to an English-speaking readership. His critical introduction is accompanied by translators’ notes, each providing wider context and a critical apparatus for students to explore the language and themes of the plays.Written for translators, future researchers and students of Global theatre, this collection contributes to the development of the literary aesthetics of resistance by addressing the depiction of caste, class and gender-based marginalisation within the framework of postcolonial Indian theatre.

This anthology offers a collection of three appealing plays, written by Dalit playwrights, that explore the politics of caste discrimination through intense plots, captivating dialogues, and remarkable characterisations. While exposing the ground reality of the Indian caste system with historical reference, the playwrights give an insight into the dynamics of caste in the contemporary socio-political backdrop. With their thematic diversities, the plays are directed towards a singular goal: the annihilation of caste-based hierarchies to bring in social parity. The plays included in this volume were originally written in Marathi and translated into English. Challenging the stereotyped epistemological assumptions, the anthology prepares the readers for discussions of the aesthetics of Dalit plays and their performances, exploring various ontological issues surrounding the genre.

Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India.  The discussion extensively delves into the historical background, context and aesthetics of Dalit drama and theatre from epistemological viewpoints. To illustrate the subtleties of caste, class and gender in the pan-Indian scenario, the book includes textual understandings of specific Dalit plays, available in English translation, originally written in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali, covering diverse regions of India. The inclusion of full-length interviews, conducted by the author, of all the living playwrights whose texts have been taken up for analysis, is another substantial facet of this study.

Since Dalit theatre has not garnered as much recognition as the other genres of Dalit literature have, this book, being one of the pioneering works in the field, aims to highlight the genre within the framework of Dalit literature and the Dalit Movement in India.  The discussion extensively delves into the historical background, context and aesthetics of Dalit drama and theatre from epistemological viewpoints. To illustrate the subtleties of caste, class and gender in the pan-Indian scenario, the book includes textual understandings of specific Dalit plays, available in English translation, originally written in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali, covering diverse regions of India. The inclusion of full-length interviews, conducted by the author, of all the living playwrights whose texts have been taken up for analysis, is another substantial facet of this study.