Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English: Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Indianness

Explores Indianness in English-language Indian Speculative Fiction and how this connects to socio-cultural changes within the country in order to present a workable definition for this nascent form of fiction

E. Dawson Varughese isaSenior Fellow at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy Higher Education (MAHE) in Karnataka, India. She is the author of Reading New India (Bloomsbury, 2013), a seminal text in the field of Indian genre fiction in English. She is also the author of Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives (2018) as well as several other monographs. She has published widely on New India and its literary and visual cultures both in internationally recognized journals and in edited volumes. She is also editor for TheRoutledge Companion to Indian Twenty-First Century Fiction in English.