Indo-Australian Relations
This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states. It examines how race, class and gender shape conceptions of the two nations, whose voices are heard and whose are not, and the politics that emerge from sport, culture, the drive for development as well as from language and the poetic. This book seeks to challenge the primacy of the state in determining the character of the nation and its monopoly of relations with other peoples. To this end, it looks to everyday life to find linkages not only between India and Australia but also extending through the South and Southeast Asian regions. This book was published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.
Phillip Darby is the co-founder (with Michael Dutton) of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies based in Melbourne, and a principal fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Indo-Australian Relations
Encounters beyond the state
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Phillip Darby
First published 2017
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Contents
Phillip Darby
Ashis Nandy and Phillip Darby
Kama Maclean
Jim Masselos
Barry Hill
Sankaran Krishna
Fregmonto J Stokes
Assa Doron and Ira Raja
Ranabir Samaddar
Paul Carter
The chapters in this book were originally published in Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Decentring the state: perspectives from the encounter between India and Australia
Phillip Darby
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 97102
International relations as variations on everyday human relations
Ashis Nandy and Phillip Darby
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 103114
Examinations, access, and inequity within the empire: Britain, Australia and India, 18901910
Kama Maclean
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 115132
Two places and three times: fragments retrieved of India and Australia in the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s
Jim Masselos
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 133144
Reason and lovelessness: Tagore, war crimes, and Justice Pal
Barry Hill
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 145160
Queering the pitch: race, class, gender and nation in the Indo-Australian encounter
Sankaran Krishna
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 161173
Applied theatre and political change in Bhutan
Fregmonto J Stokes
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 174188
The cultural politics of shit: class, gender and public space in India
Assa Doron and Ira Raja
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 189207
Zones, corridors, and postcolonial capitalism
Ranabir Samaddar
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 208221
Australindia: the geography of imperial desire
Paul Carter
Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015) pp. 222233
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Paul Carter is a writer and artist who lives in Melbourne. He is interested in cultural production in the context of colonial legacies. His recent books include Ground Truthing: Explorations in a Creative Region (2010) and Meeting Place: The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence (2013). In 2013, a volume of his poems also appeared: Ecstacies and Elegies. Through his design studio Material Thinking, Paul maintains an active public space design practice. He is currently delivering a major public artwork for Yagan Square, Perth. Paul is a Professor of Design (Urbanism), School of Architecture and Design/Design Research Institute, RMIT University.
Phillip Darby is the co-founder (with Michael Dutton) of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies based in Melbourne, and a principal fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Assa Doron is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University.
Barry Hill is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and historian who has been writing fulltime since 1976. Widely anthologised, he has won many national awards, been poetry editor of The Australian and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. His latest book is Peacemongers (2014), about (among other things) Rabindranath Tagores ambivalent, pacifist love of Japan. Some of his poems from Hiroshima are forthcoming in the August 2015 issue of the London Review of International Law.
Sankaran Krishna is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Kama Maclean is an Associate Professor of South Asian and World History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and the editor of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is the author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015) and Pilgrimage and Power: The Allahabad Kumbh Mela, 17651954 (2008).
Jim Masselos is an Honorary Reader in History at the University of Sydney. He was an undergraduate at the university in the late 1950s and studied for a doctorate at the University of Bombay. He is the author of books and numerous articles on Indian history, culture and society, and has co-curated art exhibitions and edited a number of volumes of conference proceedings.
