Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts - Hardcover

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Mahitosh Mandal is an Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He earned his BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, and PhD from the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research interests include literature and psychoanalysis, Holocaust and popular culture, and Dalit and marginality studies. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture (2018) and co-editor of Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization (Routledge, 2023). His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.

Sanjiv Kondekar is an Assistant Professor of English at Nutan Adarsh Arts, Commerce & Smt. M. H. Wegad Science College, Umred, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He earned PhD on Saint Tukaram from the Department of English, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Maharashtra. He is the recipient of Junior Research Fellowship (University Grants Commission, India). His research interests include Bhakti Movement, Tukaram Studies, Dalit Studies, and Indian Knowledge Systems. He is the author of History of Tukaram Studies: A Critical Survey (2022) and co-editor of Indian Knowledge Systems: Values and Philosophies (2024). He also co-edited Mithak: Sahitya va Sanskruti (2024). His latest Marathi-language book, titled Jivanvadi Nittitatve (2025), studies the Tamil poet-philosopher Thiruvalluvar.