About the Editors About the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature Zakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani, and Rajbir Samal Part 1: Violence, Caste, and Gender 1. Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resistance: The Politics of Dalit Identity in C. Ayyappan's Writings Christina Romeo (Christ Academy Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru) 2. Charred Bodies, Charred Narratives: Violence, Memory, and Truth in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess Saundarya (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) 3. Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess Dhanya V Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) 4. Locating the Articulations of Gendered Violence in A Leaf in the Storm Aiswarya Sanath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) Part 2: Postcolonial Fractures and Ethnic Violence 5. Home and the Nation: Representing Marginalities in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel Saman Ashfaq (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal) 6. Anthologizing India's Northeast: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Violence in the Region Niborna Hazarika (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi) 7.

Violence, Vulnerability, and Ethics in The Story of a Brief Marriage: Bearing Witness to Marginalized Suffering Navneet Kumar (Mount Royal University) 8. Quiet Devastations: Sri Lankan Ethnic Violence and Broken Intimacies in Selvadurai and Arudpragasam Madhurima Nayak (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi) Part 3: Place, People, and Environmental Violence 9. Post-Millennial Indian Fiction and The Discourse of Toxicity Rahul Vijayan and Nagendra Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) 10. Intersecting Injustices: Green Criminology and Postcolonial Marginalities in Indra Sinha's Animal's People Ranjit Mandal (Rural Institute of Higher Studies in Bhograi) and Debjani Banerjee (Beheragora Polytechnic) 11. Bastuhara: Historiographical Recovery of the Ecological Subaltern in The Hungry Tide Gunja Nandi (Texas Christian University) 12. Violence at the Wake of Capitalist Modernity: A Literary Study of People Vis-à-vis the Rivers of Bengal Indra Sankar Ghatak and Bhagyasree Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi) Index.