Call for Book Chapters

Title:

Adivasi Writings in India: History, Memory, and Contemporary Expressions

Editors:

Dr Chetna Tiwari, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Dr Naresh K Vats, Associate Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Publisher:

Vedant Knowledge Systems Pvt Ltd

www.MyVedant.com

Book Details:

International circulation, Paperback - Perfect Bind Book with ISBN, Peer-Reviewed Publication, will be available on E Commerce Platform of Vedant

Scope of the Volume:

Adivasi writings in India constitute a powerful archive of resistance, memory, culture, and lived experience. Emerging from diverse linguistic, regional, and cultural contexts, these writings challenge dominant literary canons and historiographies while foregrounding indigenous epistemologies, oral traditions, and political struggles. Writers such as Mahasweta Devi (through her sustained engagement with Adivasi lives), Nirmala Putul, Dayamani Barla, Jacinta Kerketta, Ram Dayal Munda, Vandana Tete, Rose Kerketta, Anuj Lugun,Narayan,among many others, have played a crucial role in articulating Adivasi experiences, aspirations, and resistance across regions and languages.The proposed edited book seeks to bring together critical, interdisciplinary engagements with Adivasi writings in India, highlighting their aesthetic, socio-political, and cultural significance. It aims both to foreground Adivasi voices and to encourage rigorous scholarly dialogue around Adivasi literary and cultural production.

Call for Chapter:

We invite original, unpublished scholarly chapters that explore Adivasi writings across genres, languages, regions, and historical moments, including—but not limited to—works in Hindi, English, regional Indian languages, and translated texts.

Suggested Themes

Potential areas of enquiry can be, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Adivasi literature and oral traditions
2. Histories of Adivasi writing, publishing, and literary movements
3. Readings of key Adivasi writers
4. Translation, circulation, and reception of Adivasi texts
5. Adivasi poetry, fiction, life writing, songs, and testimonies
6. Gender, sexuality, and Adivasi women’s writings
7. Land, ecology, displacement, and environmental justice
8. Resistance, protest, and political imagination in Adivasi texts
9. Adivasi aesthetics, language, and narrative forms
10. Digital media, performance, and contemporary Adivasi expressions
11. Comparative, regional, or interdisciplinary approaches
12. Pedagogy and the teaching of Adivasi literature

Chapter Format & Guidelines:

Use Times New Roman 12 pt, double spacing, and 1-inch margins.

Each chapter should be within 4000 words, including notes and references.

Abstract in 150-200 words with 4-5 keywords

A short bio-note in around 100 words

Follow MLA 9 style for referencing and citations.

Projected Timeline

Submission of complete papers:                     30 April, 2026

Notification of Review:                                  15 May, 2026

Submission of Final Chapter:                         30 May, 2026

Notes:

1. The intellectual rights of book chapters will remain with the author/s and publication rights will remain with the publisher.
2. The papers will be peer-reviewed. The decision of the reviewers regarding publication will be final.
3. The authors will remain responsible for the UGC norms for plagiarism and submit a declaration in this regard.
4. There won’t be any publication charge. In addition, a complimentary copy will be issued per chapter.
5. We intend to publish the volume by 20 June, 2026.
6. Submissions are to be emailed to pubreadnv@gmail.com - Subject line should be ‘Adivasi Writings + Author’s name’