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Faculty

Dr. Kiran Das

Dr. Kiran Das

Assistant Professor - Institute of Applied Sciences & Humanities

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Publication

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  • Das, Kiran, and Amartya Sen. “From Icon to Ideology: Gandhian Iconography and Necropolitical Nationalism in Subimal Misra’s Short Fiction.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2026, pp. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2026.2683595. (Taylor & Francis; Scopus Q1)
  • Das, Kiran, Saswat Samay Das, and Dibyendu Sahana. “Tasting Caste: Dalit Foodways, Gendered Labor, and Resistance in Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada.” Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 29, no. 4, 2025, pp. 691–710. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2025.2557880. (Taylor & Francis; Scopus Q1)
  • Das, Kiran, and Saswat Samay Das. “Soulful Echoes of Caste: Exploring Affective Cartographies in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 2025, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2025.2570259. (Taylor & Francis; Scopus Q2)
  • Das, Kiran, and Saswat Samay Das. “From Silence to Strength: Caste, Memory, and Resilience in Water in a Broken Pot.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 60, nos. 26–27, 2025. https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i26-27.43051. (Scopus Q3)
  • Das, Kiran, and Saswat Samay Das. “‘Rooster Coop’ as Affective Entrapment: Exploring ‘Ugly Feelings,’ Caste, and the Psychic Violence of Neoliberalism in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.” Ars Aeterna, vol. 17, no. 2, 2025, pp. 52–75. https://doi.org/10.17846/aa-2025-17-2-52-75. (Scopus Q3)
  • Das, Kiran, and Saswat Samay Das. “Guthlee Ladoo: A Testimony to the Persistence of Caste and Epistemic Injustice: A Critical Film Review.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X241298457. (SAGE; Web of Science)
  • Das, Kiran. “Constitutional Autocracy and Eugenic Sterilization of Dalits: The Biopolitics of Emergency in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance.” Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, vol. 16, 2023, pp. 142–152. http://inet.vidyasagar.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/6781. (UGC-CARE Listed)
  • Das, Kiran. “Necropolitics of Caste and Contesting Social Spaces: The Precarity of Dalit Women in Mahasweta Devi’s Select Narratives.” Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2023, pp. 46–55. https://www.consortiumejournal.com/journaldetails.php?journalid=23033100104NA. (Peer Reviewed)
  • Das, Kiran. “Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice.” Review of Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice, by M. Sharma. Asian Ethnicity, 2025, pp. 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2025.2505915. (Taylor & Francis; Scopus Q1)
  • Das, Kiran, and Saswat Samay Das. “Dalit Feminism and Pedagogy: Revisiting Sharmila Rege’s Transformative Scholarship.” Gender, Place & Culture, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2474582. (Taylor & Francis; Scopus Q1)
  • Das, Kiran. “Intimate Revolts: Caste, Gender, and the Politics of Loving Otherwise.” Economic and Political Weekly, 2026. (Scopus Q3)

Conferences / Seminar / Workshop

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  • “Marichjhapi, Planetary Subjects, and Embodied Cognition of Eco-casteism in Deep Halder’s The Blood Island” in International Conference: Reimagining Planetary: Planetarity and the Earth Family, [Banaras Hindu University], [November, 2023].

Research Interest

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Affect Theory, Dalit Literature, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory
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