Words from India in the West: A Critical Approach to Select Writings by the Diasporic Indian Litterateurs

assistance from British Council. He was awarded the Fulbright Exchange Summer Institute Programme and worked at Northern Illinois University, University of Chicago, and State University of New York. He was, later, awarded Australian Studies Fellowship in 2005 and 2006. He had held visiting research positions at Monash University, University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong, and holds the position of international contributing editor of Journal of American History (J.A.H). Bandyopadhyay has worked on Gerontology as the Project Leader in collaboration with University of Swansea under UKIERI-Funding-Programme, and is an awardee of the Andrew Tannahill Fund, University of Glasgow. His most recent publication includes Transnational Spaces: Australia and India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Indrajit Chattopadhyay, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English of Kabi Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly, West Bengal, India. Educated at the Universities of Calcutta and Kalyani, Chattopadhyay has been an academic-counsellor for Post-Graduate course of English Language and Literature of Indira Gandhi National Open University. His most recent publication is Of Woman Born: Changing Interpretations of Womanhood in Shakespearean Comedies (Signorina, 2020). His present areas of interest are diasporic literature, cultural studies, and hunting literature. Lata Dubey, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest include diasporic writings, British fiction, Victoria poetry, linguistics, contemporary fiction, Indian Literatures in English, feminism, contemporary theory, New Literatures in English, narratology. She has published more than two dozen research papers in different international and nationally-circulated journals, and has lectured at several conferences, seminars, and U.G.C.-H.R.D.C. Refresher Courses as resource person. Tanima Dutta, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Buniadpur Mahavidyalaya (Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India), and edits a reputed multidisciplinary journal, Exposure. An activist and a recognised performer, she has spoken at different international and national-level conferences and seminars, and has a number of critically-acclaimed research-publications to her credit. Her doctoral research thesis was highly-appreciated at the University of Heidelberg. Dutta is presently co-editing an anthology of critical writings on posthumanism, likely to be published from a reputed eastern U.S.A.-based publishing house. Saptarshi Mallick, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor of English at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, West Bengal, India (which is a constituent college of the University of North Bengal). In 2016-17 he has been a Charles Wallace India Trust (Doctoral) Fellow in the U.K. He was an Associate Staff (Research Fellow) at the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University, as part of the UKIERI Programme. He is an Ernst Mach Fellow 2019-20 (postdoctoral) at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. He has been visiting faculty in the Summer Semester of 2020 at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. He is an Associate Editor of Gitanjali and Beyond, an international, open-access e-journal of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). Rupayan Mukherjee, Ph.D., lectures English at University B.T. and Evening College, Cooch Behar (West Bengal, India). He is the co-editor of Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2020) and Popular Literature: Texts, Contexts, Contestations (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2022). Munshi, Auritra, Ph.D., works as an assistant professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India. He is a co-editor of the book titled Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics Precariousness (Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 2021). He has published many articles in international and national journals such as Indialogs: Spanish Journal Of India Studies, Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Muse India, Journal of the Department of English: Vidyasagar University, Journal of Bodoland University, and others. His interest includes South Asian diaspora, Coolie diaspora, postcolonialism, and subaltern studies.