Selected Writings of Shyamali Haldar Naskar

Indranil Acharya is Professor, Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal. He was the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). Dr. Acharya has authored and edited more than twenty books in the domains of Translation Studies, Dalit and Tribal Studies. He has also worked in UGC-sponsored research projects for the documentation, translation and archiving of the cultural texts of various Dalit and Tribal communities in South Asia. Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has authored the book Aesthetics of Dalit Theatre: Perspectives on Caste, Class and Gender, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Naskar serves as the series editor for the book series Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia with Peter Lang. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Research Grant.

• List of Contributors. Foreword. Series Editor’s Preface. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction: Indranil Acharya & Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar Section A : Novella 1. Poush-Parbon Section B: Short Stories 2. Aila in the Sundarbans 3. An Evening of Terror 4. Blood in the River 5. Encountering a Tiger 6. Living on the Edge 7. Responsibility 8. Stormy Lives 9. The Festival of the Fringe-Dwellers 10. The Mystery of the Sundarbans 11. The Proletariat Section C: Critical Essays 12. Where Wilderness Meets Human Resilience: Shyamali Haldar Naskar’s Narratives of Survival and Struggle in the Sundarbans - Soumita Adhikary 13. Dalit Women of the Sundarbans: Caste, Gender and Environmental Precarity in Select Writings of Shyamali Haldar Naskar - Debabrata Sardar Section D: Interview 14. Shyamali Haldar Naskar in conversation with Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar. Index.