About the Book: Marginal Writings in English: Bengali and Other Regional
Literature
Marginal writing is an engagement with a social commitment. Chapters of this
collected seminar papers elaborately examine the marginal literature of India.
Marginality, especially in the form of Caste discrimination is typical Indian
reality. India has been caste-stratified since time immemorial and in spite of
modernizing blows, oppressive caste discrimination stealthily continues to
sting, though with compromised venom. Literature of resistance comes under
internationally-recognized literary category of subaltern studies. The present
volume is only a slim representation of large and qualitatively rich corpus of
literary engagements. the book, as a whole, attempts to provide a platform to
the