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 issues concerning Australia's failure to construct and maintain a meaningful relationship with India, racist attacks on Indians, sporting culture, foreign policy, and cultural understanding.
Brian Stoddart, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Australia, is a New Zealand-born historian, biographer, memoirist, novelist and screenwriter who has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries. His PhD was on south Indian nationalist politics, and he has maintained a long interest in India ranging from history to sport. As a media commentator and cruise ship speaker he has been educating a wide audience about all aspects of the areas of his expertise.
Auriol Weigold is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Canberra and, in 2009-10 and 2011-12, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Canberra. She is the author of Churchill, Roosevelt and India: Propaganda During World War II. Also, she has published extensively on the India-Australia bilateral relationship.
I had a collection of essays from good authors on all aspects of the India-Australia connection that predated by several years the currently intensifying links, but no Australian house was interested in publishing. When I approached Shhalaj he immediately saw the merits of the collection and became a great advocate.
His most valuable contribution was in the shaping and ordering of the essays to give them even more coherent and topical, and then his excellent team went to work and produced a really great looking book.
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Foreword by Peter N. Varghese–High Commissioner of Australia, New Delhi — Introduction by Auriol Weigold — Australian Lessons–Dipesh Chakrabarty — Missed Opportunities–Peter Reeves — The Lizard of Oz: Indian Adventures in the Antipodes–Rukmini Bhaya Nair — Diplomatic Despatches from New Delhi: The Australian High Commission and the Australia-India Relationship, 1946-1947–Nayantara Pothen — Conflict within the Commonwealth: Australia's Troubled Relationship with India–Auriol Weigold — Australia-India Relations: Strategic Dissonance–Christopher Snedden — Between the Dragon and the Elephant: Australia's Relations with China and India–Louise Merrington — Australia's Relations with India: In the Light of Asia's Emerging Strategic Environment–Sandy Gordon — Trading Places–Brian Stoddart — Liberalisation, Urban Space and the `Decent Crowd' in Contemporary India–Douglas Hill — Indias Translated, Created and Memoired: Ethel Anderson Narrates the Subcontinent–Ipsita Sengupta — Bollywood and the Australia Imaginary, 2001-2010–Sharmistha Gooptu — How far is Bollywood from my Hotel?: The Myth and Reality of the Global Force of Bollywood–Anupam Sharma — Aussies Go Bolly: Australian Journeys through Indian Cinemascope–Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal — A New Dimension?: India, Australia and the Cultural Politics of Sport–Boria Majumdar — After the Games–Brian Stoddart — A Sum of All the Parts? Brian Stoddart
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