About the Book

In recent years, issues pertaining to cultural diversity and ethnic identity have become important sites of academic concern and intense policy debate. However, current discourses purported to devise appropriate policy measures for the co-existence of plurality of ethnic and culture diversities are yet to result on concerted action. Towards building a consensus on the vital importance of cultural diversity, the volume offers illuminating commentaries and incisive critiques by distinguished scholars and specialists from India and Australia.

About Author

D. Gopal, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University is the coordinator of Australian Studies at IGNOU. He received a Ph.D. form Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and training in Distance Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. He was a Visiting fellow at UK Open University, Milton Keynes. His recent publications include Australia in the Emerging Global Order; Globalisation and Regional Security: India and Australia; India and Australia: Issues and Opportunities; Politics of Globalisation; India -Australia Relation: Convergences and Divergences.

Currently, the University of South Australia has appointed Dr. Gopal as adjunct Professor at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, Adelaide, Australia.

Alan Mayne holds a Research SA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History and Social Policy in the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. He received a Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1980, and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His Publications, include Fever; Squalor & Vice; The Imagined Slum;, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes (with Tim Murray); Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape; Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend; Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of outback Australia and Building the Village: A History of Australia' Bendigo Bank.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Building the Australia-India Relationship- Bruce Bennett
2. Plural Cultures, Monolithic Structures- Kapila Vatsyayan
3. The Homogenised Other: Cultural Diversity and Social Inequality- Alan Mayne
4. Deliberative Democracy and Modern Pluralism- Subrata Mukherjee
5. 'A long and winding road'. From Cultural Homogeneity to a Multicultural Society: An Analysis of Inclusion and Exclusion in Australia- David Roberts
6. Limits of Multiculturalism in a Liberal Polity: Need for a Shared Identity-Sushila Ramaswamy
7. "Australia is a Multicultural Community -you'll feel at home":Cultural Diversity and the Promotion of Australia Internationally- Andrew Hassam
8. Accommodation of Cultural Diversity in India: Reflections on Past and Present- Abdulrahim P. Vijapur
9. Gandhian Ideas on Cultural Diversity and Unity in India- Sailaja Gullapalli
10. Multiculturalism: Australian and Indian Approach-Sonu Trivedi
11. Post Colonial Formation, Paradigm Consolidation and Economic Marginalization- S. Ram Vemuri
12. Dalits and Indigenous Australians: Affirmative Actions and Existing Realities- Swaraj Basu
13. Exploring a Critical Tradition in Communications Research: A Cultural Discourse- Amita Singh
14. Education and Empowerment: Dalits and the Demand for Modern Education in Colonial India- Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
15. Recent Developments in Indian Migration to Australia (with Special Reference to Academics)- Graeme Hugo and Gouranga Lal Dasvarma
16. Cultural Diversity in the Australian Classroom and the Experience of Arab-Muslim Students- Sally Percival Wood
17. Working Australia Efficiency and Equity- Liz Hall
18. North-East India's Cultural Diversity: Trends of Unrest and Marginalization- Sudhir Jacob George
19. Socio-economic Inequities of Tribal Communities in India- Priti Singh
20. Reinventing Australian Identity-D. Gopal
21. Identity and Rights of the Diaspora in the Post-colonial Era- R. Narayanan
22. Understanding Cultural Diversity: Reflections from the Americas- Satya R. Pattnayak
Contributors
Index

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