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Nation-Building, Education and Culture in India and Canada (eBook, PDF)

Advances in Indo-Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Research

Redaktion: Gayithri, K.; Chattopadhyay, Suchorita; Hariharan, B.

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This volume provides comparative perspectives on issues related to education, culture, sustainable development and nation-building in India and Canada. It takes cognizance of current research in Indo-Canadian comparative studies and is meant to facilitate further research in these areas. It importantly highlights the trends and growth areas in comparative social science and humanities research between the countries. The chapters in this volume discuss the research that scholars have recently undertaken in both countries and the impact that such comparative research has on developing partnershi...

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Dr. K. Gayithri is a Professor of Economics in the Center for Economic Studies and Policy at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. She has been a recipient of Shastri Indo Canadian faculty research fellowship twice to undertake comparative fiscal studies at the Carleton University, Canada. She also served the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute as an Executive Committee member. She has undergone training at the Duke Center for International development, Duke University, on aspects relating to 'public budgeting and financial management'. She has also participated in the executive education program on 'Public financial management in a changing world' at the John F. Kennedy School of government at the Harvard University, Boston. Dr. Suchorita Chattopadhyay is the founder and coordinator of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Jadavpur University. She is also a member of the Indian Members' Council, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute since 2005. She has organized 12 national and international seminars and conferences on Canadian Studies and has edited 5 volumes on Canadian Studies. She also teaches regularly at the Centre for Translations of Indian Literatures at Jadavpur University and also serves on their Academic/Advisory Committee. She is also an Executive Committee member of the Comparative Literature Association of India.She was the joint coordinator of the XIth Biennial International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in January 2013. Dr. B. Hariharan is a Professor at the Institute of English, and Director of the UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He completed a Major Research Project funded by the UGC. As member of the editorial team, he prepared introductory course material on Canadian Studies hosted at www.canadastukeralauniv.edu.in. He has also published book length study on the novels of Robert Kroetsch; co-edited books apart from translating from Malayalam. His area of interest includes theatre, diasporas, translation, Canadian novel. He is Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Graduate Fellowship Recipient in 1992-93. His current interest is to theorize the hyphen in relation to Diaspora and the teaching of the contexts in which translation functions.