Transnational Spaces of India and Australia

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of ’home and away’. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.

Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is Secretary of the Indian Association for Studies of Australia, Eastern Branch and Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He has edited several collections of studies of Indian-Australia literary and historical links.

Dr Paul Sharrad is University Fellow at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on postcolonial literatures, with specialisations in writing from India, Australia and the Pacific.