The Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary Texts and Cultures

About

Kaustav Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of English Southfield (Loreto) College Darjeeling India. He has been a Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla. His areas of interest are Queer Studies Indigenous Literatures and Cultures Folklore Culture of Nationalism Philosophy of Intimacy and South Asian Literatures. His major publications include Indian Drama in English (edited volume 2014) Tagore and Nationalism (co-edited with K. L. Tuteja 2017) Indigeneity Tales and Alternatives (2017) The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (edited volume 2020) Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India (2020) and Nations and Nationalisms: A Short Introduction (2021).Anup Shekhar Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Political Studies at Kolkatas Netaji Institute for Asian Studies and a member of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG). He received the IPSA National Young Political Scientist Award 2020; the IDRC DEF and IDF India Social Science Research Award 2009 and the C.R. Parekh Fellowship (2011-2012) at the Asia Research Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published numerous works about the Zo/Mizo people. His most recent works include Braided Entanglements of Identities Religion and Politics in Mizoram (2020); Religion and Politics in Mizoram (2019); and Death and Dying in Northeast India: Indigeneity and Afterlife (co-edited with P. Sen 2023). He serves as one of the Guest Editors for the Special Issue on LGBTQ+ People in Situations of Forced Displacement Oxford Journal of Refugee Studies.