Mayurika Chakravorty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was a Felix doctoral scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2024. She researches and writes on fantasy and speculative literature; children’s literature; and the representation of childhood and girlhood in literature and media.

• A Note on Translation, Transliterations, Names, and ReferencesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Resisting Disenchantment: Imagination, Cultural Endurance and the Rise of the Novel in Nineteenth Century Bengal3. An Unorthodox Romantic: Beauty, Freedom, and Unreason in Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Kanthamala, Madhabilata and Other Writings4. Of Fever, Delirium and Fantastic Sojourn: A Study of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati and Other Stories5. The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray’s Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other Writings6. Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Fantasy, and Subversion in the Fictional Works of ParashuramEpilogueBibliographyAppendix

Mayurika Chakravorty’s Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India is a significant intervention not only in South Asian literary scholarship but also in the global conversations about fantasy as a form of political subversion … [it] deserves critical attention as a significantly valuable text for its contextual and textual rigour, deep engagement with the politics of genre, and interrogation of colonial reasoning, which extends and enriches postcolonial literary studies by positioning fantasy as an epistemic intervention rather than escapism.

Mayurika Chakravorty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was a Felix doctoral scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2024. She researches and writes on fantasy and speculative literature; children’s literature; and the representation of childhood and girlhood in literature and media.

• A Note on Translation, Transliterations, Names, and ReferencesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Resisting Disenchantment: Imagination, Cultural Endurance and the Rise of the Novel in Nineteenth Century Bengal3. An Unorthodox Romantic: Beauty, Freedom, and Unreason in Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Kanthamala, Madhabilata and Other Writings4. Of Fever, Delirium and Fantastic Sojourn: A Study of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati and Other Stories5. The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray’s Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other Writings6. Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Fantasy, and Subversion in the Fictional Works of ParashuramEpilogueBibliographyAppendix

Mayurika Chakravorty’s Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India is a significant intervention not only in South Asian literary scholarship but also in the global conversations about fantasy as a form of political subversion … [it] deserves critical attention as a significantly valuable text for its contextual and textual rigour, deep engagement with the politics of genre, and interrogation of colonial reasoning, which extends and enriches postcolonial literary studies by positioning fantasy as an epistemic intervention rather than escapism.

Mayurika Chakravorty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was a Felix doctoral scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2024. She researches and writes on fantasy and speculative literature; children’s literature; and the representation of childhood and girlhood in literature and media.

• A Note on Translation, Transliterations, Names, and ReferencesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Resisting Disenchantment: Imagination, Cultural Endurance and the Rise of the Novel in Nineteenth Century Bengal3. An Unorthodox Romantic: Beauty, Freedom, and Unreason in Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Kanthamala, Madhabilata and Other Writings4. Of Fever, Delirium and Fantastic Sojourn: A Study of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay’s Kankabati and Other Stories5. The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray’s Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other Writings6. Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Fantasy, and Subversion in the Fictional Works of ParashuramEpilogueBibliographyAppendix

Mayurika Chakravorty’s Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India is a significant intervention not only in South Asian literary scholarship but also in the global conversations about fantasy as a form of political subversion … [it] deserves critical attention as a significantly valuable text for its contextual and textual rigour, deep engagement with the politics of genre, and interrogation of colonial reasoning, which extends and enriches postcolonial literary studies by positioning fantasy as an epistemic intervention rather than escapism.