Introduction: Literature as Narrative Ethnographies of Human-Wildlife Conflict in India Susan Haris Narrative Subjects, Animal Subjectivities 1. The Hunter's Triumph: Mysterious Forests and Chicken Frontiers in two Zoo-Fictions from Northeast India Dhrijyoti Kalita 2. The Other-Than-Human Subject in the Writings of Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer Gourilekshmi Hari 3. To the Elephant Graveyard: Intersecting Boundaries and Interspecies Conflict in Prabhat Goswami's Stride of the White Tusker (2012) Bidyum Medhi Social Constructions, Material Consequences 4. Shifting Owlscapes in Bengal: A Flight through Myth, Mysticism, and Marginalisation Camellia Paul 5. Domesticated Pachyderms, Complicated Wildlife: A Study of Elephant Stories in Aithihyamala (1909) and Popular Media Narratives from Kerala Anchitha Krishna 6. Navigating Animal Hierarchies: A Study of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 Puru Sharma Culture, Cosmology, Context 7. Belongingness and Conflict: Human-Nonhuman Agency in the Folk Narratives of Gujjars and Bakerwals, the Transhumance Pastoral Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir, India Tanu Gupta 8.

Beyond the Hunt, the Hunters and the Hunted: A Critical Examination of Multispecies Encounters in Malabarile Sikkaru Maria Viju 9. Revisiting the Grey Ghost of Ladakh: Reading Complex Tonalities of Human-Wildlife Conflict in Yangdol by Pankaj Singh (Illustrated by Athulya Pillai) Akshita Bhardwaj Multispecies Pasts/Speculative Futures 10. Human-Wildlife Conflict and Figurations of Nonhuman Precarity and Death in Satyajit Ray's Short Stories Dhee Sankar 11. 'Alien and Strangely Familiar': Approaching Human-Wildlife Encounters in the Indian Subcontinent through Speculative Fiction Himika Chakraborty 12. Non-Human Agency in Easterine Kire's Fiction: The Syncretism of Indigenous Animism and Christian Narratives Bune Bethseba Lemai Daiho Afterword Anu Pande About the Editors and Contributors Index.