BOOKS | Dr. Mahitosh Mandal
Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts
Edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv Kondekar
Routledge, 2026
This volume offers a critical engagement with nearly fifty foundational terms and concepts that have shaped—and continue to shape—the field of Dalit Studies. Bringing together 47 chapters by 30 scholars, the book traces the genealogy of key ideas, situates them within literary, cultural, and socio-political contexts, and examines their contemporary significance. Interdisciplinary in approach, the volume integrates historical, textual, and discourse analysis to illuminate concepts that are frequently invoked but rarely examined in depth.
Conceived as a reference work for an evolving field, the volume provides a conceptual map of Dalit Studies for students and researchers in literary and cultural theory, social theory, and South Asian studies.
Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization
Edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Priyanka Das
Routledge, 2023
This edited volume examines debates surrounding the representation of the Holocaust in popular culture. Challenging the binary between the supposed “incompatibility” of the Holocaust and popular culture and the “universalization” of Holocaust memory through popular media, the book proposes a more productive understanding of Holocaust popular culture in a transnational context.
Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture
Mahitosh Mandal
Series Editor: Sumit Chakrabarti
Literary/Cultural Theory Series
Orient BlackSwan, 2018
This book offers an accessible overview of Jacques Lacan’s major psychoanalytic theories and their implications for literary and cultural analysis. It discusses Lacan’s understanding of the human subject, the clinical structures of psychosis, neurosis, and perversion, and demonstrates the application of Lacanian criticism through a reading of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Moving beyond the clinical domain, the study also explores the reception of Lacanian thought in fields such as film studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction.