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This book deals with the academic dependency of scholars variously positioned in the South. All contributors to this book acknowledge that though place might play a different role in the contemporary globalized world, yet the location of people has not become irrelevant. However, there is limited knowledge about the impact of place among academicians differently located in the South and of the costs and benefits of academic globalization. The main purpose of this ...
Rahman Khan (1874-1972), born in the village Bharkhari (Hamirpur, United Provinces), was 24 years old when he left for Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam (South America). At the age of 67, Rahman Khan, a practicing pathan Muslim, completed his autobiography entitled Jeevan Prakash in which he connects India, the land of his birth, with Surinam, the country in which he married, is a contract labourer and later becomes a plantation overseer and a teacher in Hindi ...
The establishment of new nation-states after the partition of British India in 1947 not only required new geographical boundaries but also a cognitive map with included and excluded. This book concerns the ‘tyrannical’ workings of such borders on the mind of nation-builders in both Bangladesh and India. The author also shows however that there are other stories to tell about the event of 1947, its history and its aftermath. Members of the so-called religious ...