Chandan Ruidas is a PhD Scholar in the Department of English Studies at the
Central University of Jharkhand. He is currently pursuing his doctoral research
in Dalit Studies under the supervision of Dr. (Prof.) Ranjit Kumar. His
research interests primarily revolve around caste, identity, labour, and Dalit
literary expressions.
He has contributed to
academic discourse through both publications and conference presentations. His
published works include a book chapter titled “The Enigmatic Lives of
Dalit Women in Sharankumar Limbale's The Outcaste”, featured in Writing
as Counter-Discourse: Critical Essays on Sharankumar Limbale, edited by T.
Marx (June 2025). He has also authored a research paper titled “Caste,
Labour and Migration: The Changing Landscape of Dalit Identity in the Select
Texts of Dalit Writers”, published in The Global Journal of
Contextual Thought, Vol. 1, Issue 4 (2026).
In addition to his
publications, he has actively participated in academic conferences. He
presented a paper titled “From Margins to Pages: Reorienting Dalit
Women’s Voices in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies” at Amity
University, Patna on 28th November 2025. He also presented another paper
titled “Eating the Forbidden: Caste, Purity, and the Stigmatization of
Dalit Cuisine” at Adamas University, Kolkata on 15th January 2026.