Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing

Manju Jaidka is a former Professor and Chairperson of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. With numerous national and international fellowships, including a Fulbright and two Rockefeller awards, she has lectured at top universities globally. The author of more than twenty-five books, she is a prolific creative writer with publications including poems, novels, and plays. She has curated Literature Festivals in Chandigarh and Himachal, founded MELOW, the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World, in 1997, and has organized annual international conferences since then. Her recent publication includes the Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English compiled and co-edited with Tej N. Dhar.Tej N. Dhar, Professor of English, Shoolini University, has taught at Universities in Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Asmara (Eritrea), and held fellowships at the BHU, University of Southern California, and IIAS, Shimla. He has authored History-Fiction Interface in the Indian English Novel, Under the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri, The Tale of a Beleaguered Soldier, edited fourteen books, and published over fifty critical essays and four hundred book reviews. With Manju Jaidka he co-edited the Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English in 2024.Natasha W. Vashisht teaches Global South literature and world drama in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto in Canada. She is a former Assistant Professor of English at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and the recipient of the National Research UGC fellowship for her doctoral study on revolutionary humor in the theatre of Dario Fo. Her research is committed to studying minority discourses and incorporates literary narratives of the Global South from subaltern and decolonial perspectives. She has published articles in this field in reputed journals and anthologies.

• Loomba, Ania.- Reterritorialization.- Abdulali, Sohaila.- HANIF KUREISHI.- Orientalism.- MY SON THE FANATIC.- EDWARD SOJA.- Waheed, Mirza.- Dasgupta, Rana.- Mukherjee, Abir.- The Collaborator.- Tokyo Cancelled.- A Necessary Evil.- Statelessness.- Syncretism.- Sujata Bhatt.- Bhabha, Homi K.- Multiculturalism.- UMA PARAMESHWARAN.- Sons Must Die by Uma Parameshwaran.- RONNIE GOVENDER.- Transnationalism.- White Tears.- Gayatri Gopinath.- Hari Kunzru.- Cyber Coolie.- Coolitude.- Parekh.- Bhikhu.- Ong, Aihwa.- Bashabi Fraser.- Usha Akella.- Pramila Venkateswaran.- Yogesh Patel.- Scots Beneath the Banyan Tree: Stories from Bengal.- Shilpi Somaya Gowda.- Shani Mootoo.- Tanika Gupta.- Great Expectations.- Creolization.- Nostalgia.- Giri, Bed Prasad.- Sonia Faleiro.-  Deepak Unnikrishnan.