Discourse, Democracy and Difference: Perspectives on Community, Politics and Culture

Deeptha Achar teaches at the Department of English, M.S. University of Baroda. She has worked on representations of Africa in popular boys’ fiction of the late nineteenth century Britain for her Ph. D dissertation. Her current research interests center around education and childhood in India and she is currently engaged in a project entitled ‘Educational Policies and Gender: The Case of Gujarat’.

M.T. Ansari teaches in the Department of English at the maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, and is working towards his doctoral dissertation on Islam in India : History, Theory and Literature. Prior to this, he taught at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady