Sankar Prasad Singha is Professor at the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal.

Indranil Acharya is Associate Professor, Department of English, at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal.

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Publisher’s Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements by the Editors

Dalit Literature: An Introduction

1. ‘The Petty Done, the Undone Vast’: Dalit Literature in Translation 
   G. K. Das
2. Shattered Amphora and Translation of Dalit Poetry: Re-configuring the Myth of the Origin Angshuman Kar
   
3. Dalit Literature and its Translation: A Critical Enquiry                    
   Raj Kumar
4. Enhancing the Epistemology of Dalit Literature: A Comparative study of Dalit and Holocaust Literatures
   Panchanan Dalai
5. Hierarchy of Exploitation amongst Indigenous Communities: A Reading of Anil Gharai’s ‘The Almond Flowers’
   Indranil Acharya
6. Understanding Rajbanshi Cultural Politics: Moving from the Oral to the Literary
   G. N. Ray
7. Classical Realism, Dalit Ontology and the Autobiographical Self in Joothan and The Outcaste
   Priyanka Srivastava
8. Living in Translation: The Translator’s Dilemma in The Hungry Tide
   Raja Basu
9. Politics and Poetics of Writing/Translating Dalit
   Harish Narang
10. Dalits of Bengal: An Appraisal of the Two Paradigms on Their Origin
    Achintya Biswas
11. An Odyssey from Bitter Memories to Better Dreams: Language and Identity-Politics in Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste
    Asis De
12. Bengali Dalit Poetry Past and Present: A Critical Study
    Manohar Mouli Biswas
13. From Alisamma Women’s Collective to Mattipulu: Dalit Women’s Journey towards Solidarity
    K. Suneetha Rani
14. Between Anger and Aesthetics: Rhetoric of Restraint in Recent Bengali Dalit Poetry
    Tajuddin Ahmed

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