The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene [Hardcover]

Introduction: Theorising the Planetary Subaltern??Part I:?Planetary Crises and the Subaltern Subjects??1. Protests against the Farm Laws: The Political Ecology of the Green Revolution and the Limits of Agrarian Populism? 2. Subaltern Climate, Climate Subaltern? 3. The Gendered Subaltern and the Plachimada Struggle: Examining Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Womens Resistance in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior??4. Can The Subaltern Alternate? : Exploring Planetarity as Radical Alterity in The Netflix Docuseries The Hunt for Veerappan??5. The Subaltern in the Anthropocene: The Case of the Jarawas in The Last Wave??Part II:?The Planetary Subaltern and Narratives??6. Travails of Modernity and The Planetary Subaltern in Amitav Ghoshs The Living Mountain and Anuradha Sharma Pujaris?The Forest Wails??7. Preparing the Earth: Diasporic Bildung and Planetary Ethics in K. S. Maniams In a Far Country??8. Environmental Reproductive Justice in the Anthropocene: Narrating Subaltern Experiences from India? 9. Anthropocene and the Deranged Others: Situating Planetary Subalterns in Literary Representations from Northeast India? 10. Of Rivers, Roots and Resilience: Reflections of Subaltern Voices in Select Bengali River-writing? 11. The Capitalocene, the Displaced Other, and Subaltern Environmentalism in Nila Madhab Pandas The Jengaburu Curse (2023)? 12. Fairies, Mountains and the Anthropos: Exploring Strategies of Narrativising Nature in the Anthropocene

This book initiates a dialogue between two discursive fields of study, the Anthropocene and the Subaltern Studies. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, literary criticism,lcØ