Shubhanku Kochar teaches at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specializes in African and African Diasporic Literature along with Ecological literary criticism. His latest publications are: Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023), both with Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, and Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024) by Ibidem/ Columbia University Press. At present, he is working on a project titled “Understanding Migration: Middle Passage, Interior Passage and African American Fiction”, which is funded by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.Rananjayaa Singh is an English language analyst at Trivium Education Services Pvt. Ltd., India, in collaboration with Tutor.com (Princeton, USA). She earned her Ph.D. in English from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. A Sangeet Prabhakar in the classical dance form Kathak, she has also worked as an FM presenter for Vividh Bharati, a government radio broadcast channel. She is an independent researcher and freelance copyeditor and proofreader, assisting students and academicians in refining their academic voices. Her research interests include Literature and the Environment, African American Literature, and Literature from the Margins.

• Chapter I: Silent Echoes, Dalit Women and Environmental Justice: A Literary Exploration.- Chapter II: Voices of the Everyday: Dalit Aesthetics and Ecology in Select Malayalam Short Fiction.- Chapter III: Ecological Injustice and Dalit Narratives: A Reading of Hira Bansode’s Select Poems.- Chapter V: Affective Land and Dystopian Environmental Desire in Raju K Vasu’s Polappatham.- Chapter VI: The “People of mud and water”: An Ecological Study of Surviving in My World.- Chapter VII: Ecology of Plight: A Reading of Selected Bangla Dalit Short Stories.- Chapter VIII: Stitched in Struggle: Dalit Clothing as Symbol of Environmental Hardships.- Chapter IX: Caste, Deprivation, and Ecological Disparities: A Narrative Exploration of Environment Injustice in Outcaste: A Memoir.

Shubhanku Kochar teaches at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specializes in African and African Diasporic Literature along with Ecological literary criticism. His latest publications are: Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023), both with Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, and Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024) by Ibidem/ Columbia University Press. At present, he is working on a project titled “Understanding Migration: Middle Passage, Interior Passage and African American Fiction”, which is funded by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.Rananjayaa Singh is an English language analyst at Trivium Education Services Pvt. Ltd., India, in collaboration with Tutor.com (Princeton, USA). She earned her Ph.D. in English from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. A Sangeet Prabhakar in the classical dance form Kathak, she has also worked as an FM presenter for Vividh Bharati, a government radio broadcast channel. She is an independent researcher and freelance copyeditor and proofreader, assisting students and academicians in refining their academic voices. Her research interests include Literature and the Environment, African American Literature, and Literature from the Margins.

• Chapter I: Silent Echoes, Dalit Women and Environmental Justice: A Literary Exploration.- Chapter II: Voices of the Everyday: Dalit Aesthetics and Ecology in Select Malayalam Short Fiction.- Chapter III: Ecological Injustice and Dalit Narratives: A Reading of Hira Bansode’s Select Poems.- Chapter V: Affective Land and Dystopian Environmental Desire in Raju K Vasu’s Polappatham.- Chapter VI: The “People of mud and water”: An Ecological Study of Surviving in My World.- Chapter VII: Ecology of Plight: A Reading of Selected Bangla Dalit Short Stories.- Chapter VIII: Stitched in Struggle: Dalit Clothing as Symbol of Environmental Hardships.- Chapter IX: Caste, Deprivation, and Ecological Disparities: A Narrative Exploration of Environment Injustice in Outcaste: A Memoir.

Shubhanku Kochar teaches at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specializes in African and African Diasporic Literature along with Ecological literary criticism. His latest publications are: Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023), both with Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, and Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024) by Ibidem/ Columbia University Press. At present, he is working on a project titled “Understanding Migration: Middle Passage, Interior Passage and African American Fiction”, which is funded by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi.Rananjayaa Singh is an English language analyst at Trivium Education Services Pvt. Ltd., India, in collaboration with Tutor.com (Princeton, USA). She earned her Ph.D. in English from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. A Sangeet Prabhakar in the classical dance form Kathak, she has also worked as an FM presenter for Vividh Bharati, a government radio broadcast channel. She is an independent researcher and freelance copyeditor and proofreader, assisting students and academicians in refining their academic voices. Her research interests include Literature and the Environment, African American Literature, and Literature from the Margins.

• Chapter I: Silent Echoes, Dalit Women and Environmental Justice: A Literary Exploration.- Chapter II: Voices of the Everyday: Dalit Aesthetics and Ecology in Select Malayalam Short Fiction.- Chapter III: Ecological Injustice and Dalit Narratives: A Reading of Hira Bansode’s Select Poems.- Chapter V: Affective Land and Dystopian Environmental Desire in Raju K Vasu’s Polappatham.- Chapter VI: The “People of mud and water”: An Ecological Study of Surviving in My World.- Chapter VII: Ecology of Plight: A Reading of Selected Bangla Dalit Short Stories.- Chapter VIII: Stitched in Struggle: Dalit Clothing as Symbol of Environmental Hardships.- Chapter IX: Caste, Deprivation, and Ecological Disparities: A Narrative Exploration of Environment Injustice in Outcaste: A Memoir.