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Re-imagining Australia and India
Papers presented at the Fourth International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia, held at Kolkata during 22-24 January 2008.
Culture Interfaces
Cultural Interfaces is a collection of twenty papers by international as well as young research scholars engaged in Australian Studies in India. These were presented at the First International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA). With contributions from Bruce Bennett, Jennifer Strauss, Dennis Haskell, Satendra Nandan, David Kimber, Fran Siemensma, Parimal Roy and Marianne Robinson, Y. Yagama Reddy and Quentin-Stevenson Perks amongst many others, this volume reflects a dynamic engagement of ideas, both from a literary and a socio-political perspective, in the areas of history, culture, art, trade and education.The interfaces these essays provide, the interdisciplinary ethos they promote, are a much-needed new dimension to the study of Australian culture, society and polity in India. The present collection is set to meet precisely that objective.
Landscape, Place and Culture
This collection of essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological, social, economic and, in particular, the cultural dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. The essays provide many levels of focus on environment, place and culture. Some evoke appreciation of particular “places,” either in India or Australia. Many explore how literature has treated “landscape,” while some are comparative studies of cultural, historical and political development. The essays arise from a particular gathering of scholars: The East India chapter of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA) held its inaugural international conference in Kolkata on 22–23 January 2009. ...
Remapping the Future
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen an increasing trend in the field of Australian Studies for scholars to situate their research within a broader international context and conversation. In some cases, this involves exploring how concepts developed in other national contexts can be employed to illuminate aspects of the Australian experience; in others, the focus is on the transnational movement of people and ideas between Australia and the rest of the world. This collection of essays represents a selection of this recent scholarship, particularly in relation to conversations between scholars in Australia and India, and was initiated under the auspices of the Indian Associat...
India-Australia Relations
Preface 1. Introduction D. Gopal 2. Conspicuous Hospitality: Cultivating a New Racial Etiquette in Australia, 1930-1960 David Walker 3. The Process of Positive 'Native Title' Determination in Australia: Leading to a 'Negative Title'? Priti Singh 4. Benign Whiteness in Australian Race Relations Auriol Weigold 5. Indians in Fiji in the Nineteenth Century: An International Communication Perspective Peter Putnis 6. State and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific: A Case Study of Japan and Australia Varalaxmi Naik 7. Minority Women and Forced Migrations: A Comparative Study of Flight and Settlement Experiences of Women Refugees in India and Australia Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Roberta Julian 8. Culture...
New Directions in Australian Studies
An Important Landmark In The Emerging Dialogue Between Australia And Asia. The Papers Articulate Perceptive Insights From Australian Scholars And Also Record The Growing Interest Of Asian Scholars In Australian Culture.
India and Australia
This Book Covers All Aspects Of Indo-Australian Relations: Political Relations Having A Strong Component Of Security Concerns; Regional Strategies; Bilateral Economic Cooperation; And The Cultural Interface.
Reading Down Under
The Englishness of English literature had been expressed in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, those writers whose works seemed best to embody the spirit of the place or the spirit of its folk. In what writers or works would the Australianness of Australian literature be discovered? (David Carter 1997)--------This first literary Reader on Australian studies from India not only investigates this central question but explores many other facets of Australian literature and especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, this Reader explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aborigi...
India and Australia
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Freedom from Pain (Sixteenth International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care)
This volume contains invited lectures presented at the Sixteenth International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care held at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (Feb. 13-15, 2009). The objective is to improve knowledge-base and clinical skills in addressing the issues of pain in Cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Spread in 13 main sections this volume is a collection of 49 invited lectures provided by practicing doctors, research scientists and academicians from more than 21 countries. This volume would be of immense value and use to: (a) Palliative care giver in the field of Cancer Pain Management and Palliative Care of the terminally sick patients, (b) Post graduate students, Residents and Interns in a Cancer or HIV/AID center, (c) On duty doctors/ nurses in an ICU/pain ward/day care center, (d) care givers at Old Age homes. This collection of invited lectures will definitely offer insight of new perspectives and directions in this socially relevant and desirable area of Pain and Palliative Care.
