Sonya Surabhi Gupta is a professor of Latin American studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Introduction Part I: Towards a Conceptual and Definitional Framework 1. The Touch of the Other: Testimonio and Autobiographical Writing in India and Latin America 2. Some Notes on the Testimonio 3. The Testimonio in Latin America and India: Critical Contestations of the Collective Voice 4. In Defense of the 'Subaltern': Tracing the Concept Through/Across South Asia and Latin America Part II: Autobiographies in the Pluriverse of Dalit Writing 5. Autobiography and the Defacement of the Self: Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri 6. Muli's Life History as a Dalit testimonio 7. Dalit Writing in Bangla: A Thematic Reading of Selected Narratives by Manoranjan Byapari and Manju Bala 8. Opening the Self, or the Other? On the Emergence of Bahujan Self-narratives on New Media 9. Studying Caste Up: Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit Part III: Revisiting the Testimonio with Cross-Cultural Readings 10. At the Threshold of Literature: Testimonios after Menchú 11. The Small Voice of History: Revisiting Biography of a Runaway Slave 12. Resistance through Recipes: Locating Testimonial Aspects in Dalit and Chicana Food Narratives 13. Testimonio as a Repository of Subaltern Memory: Reading Women's Narratives from Guatemala and India