1st Edition
Caste and the City Urban Aspirations and Sensibility in Hindi Dalit Short Fiction
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction: Of Nightmare and Dream 1
1 Early Footprints: Dalit Short Fiction in Hindi 8
2 Dalits in the City 27
3 The Shrill and the Subtle: Contesting Voices in the Hindi Dalit Literary Sphere 51
4 Rebels Within and Without: The Hindi Dalit Woman Writer 80
Conclusion: “It’s Not Morning Yet” 115
Bibliography 123
Index 127
Biography
Deeba Zafir teaches in the Department of English, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi. She has published critical essays and reviewed works of Urdu and Hindi literature. She has also translated essays on literary criticism, fiction, and poetry from Urdu and Hindi into English. Her most recent translation is the autobiography of the well-known Hindi Dalit writer, Sheoraj Singh Bechain’s My Childhood on My Shoulders, co-translated with Tapan Basu (2018). Her other research interests include Partition, Dalit, and Disability Studies.
