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This book offers a critical exploration of the intersections of poverty, pollution, and caste in India through the lens of Dalit literature from across regions. Introducing the concept of Environmental Casteism within Indian ecology, it examines how entrenched hierarchies and systemic discrimination shape environmental experiences and deepen socio-economic divides. Drawing from a rich corpus of Dalit literary works, this book provides a nuanced understanding of how literature serves as a potent medium for articulating ecological concerns, resistance, and resilience in the face of environmental injustices. Integrating perspectives from environmental studies, sociology, and postcolonial theory, it challenges dominant narratives and calls for inclusive and equitable ecological discourse. An essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and readers, it offers critical insights into the intertwined realities of caste, environment, and social justice in India.

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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.

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