India and Australia : Bridging Different Worlds
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Auriol Weigold. 2. Australian lessons/Dipesh Chakrabarty. 3. Missed opportunities/Peter Reeves. 4. The lizard of oz: Indian adventures in the antipodes/Rukmini Bhaya Nair. 5. Diplomatic despatches from New Delhi: the Australian High Commission and the Australia-India relationship 1946-1947/Nayantara Pothen. 6. Conflict within the commonwealth: Australias troubled relationship with India/Auriol Weigold. 7. Australia India relations: strategic dissonance/Christopher Snedden. 8. Between the dragon and the elephant: Australia\'s relations with China and India/Louise Merrington. 9. Australia\'s relations with India: In the light of Asia\'s emerging strategic environment/Sandy Gordan. 10. Trading places/Brian Stoddart. 11. Liberalisation urban space and the decent crowd in contemporary India/Douglas Hill. 12. Indian translated created and memoired: Ethel Anderson narrates the subcontinent/Ipsita Sengupta. 13. Bollywood and the Australia imaginery 2001-2010/Sharmistha Gooptu. 14. How far is bollywood from my hotel: the myth and reality of the global force bollywood/Anupam Sharma. 15. Aussies go bolly: Australian journeys through Indian cinemascope/Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. 16. A new dimension : India Australia and the cultural politics of sport/Boria Majumdar. 17. After the games/Brian Stoddart. 18. A sum of all the parts/Brian Stoddart. Index.
The ties between India and Australia dates back to the 18th century. They have several commonalities which serve as a foundation for close cooperation and multifaceted interaction. Before independence both the countries were part of the British Empire and presently both are members of the UNO Commonwealth of Nations, G-20, IOR-ARC, ASEAN Regional Forum and Asia Pacific Partnership on Climate and Clean Development.
The essays in this collection attempt to analyse the various facets of India Australia relations. Presenting a variety of critical viewpoints from both the countries drawn across a number of environments cultural political personal sporting and travel the contributors address critical political personal sporting and travel the contributors address critical issues concerning Australias failure to construct and maintain a meaningful relationship with India racist attacks on Indians sporting culture foreign policy and cultural understanding. (jacket)
