Offering an overview of the emerging trends in Indo-Latin American relations, the book is an outcome of an international conference organised by the Centre for Latin American Studies of Goa University in March 1997 with funding provided by the Government of India’s Ministry of External Affairs. Participants at the Conference included the Heads of Missions of Latin American and Caribbean countries in India, officials of the Ministry of External Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and the Government of Goa as well as academics, research scholars and scientists of India and the members of the business community and representatives of the chambers of commerce. Excerpts of the formal presentations made and a brief summary of the discussions that took place in the different sessions of the conference are published in this compendium in the hope that it would serve as both primary and secondary source of material for the business community, policy-making bodies and scholars engaged in their endeavour to forge meaningful and purposive relations between India and the Latin America-Caribbean region.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V. Shivkumar
Prof. V. Shivkumar, Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies, had served in many Indian Universities for over two decades. Prof. Kumar earlier had authored books on US Interventionism in Latin America and Latin American perspectives on Kashmir Problem. He also assisted in bringing out a volume on Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean edited by late I.J. Bahadur Singh (I.F.S.) former Indian Ambassador to Egypt. Prof. Kumar had held several academic positions in the Indian universities and had been the recipient of the U.S. sponsored International Visitors Programme (IVP). He served in the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan as a Colombo plan expert and had lectured in various Latin American and the Caribbean Universities, such as the University of West Indies, Trinidad, University of Cardoba, Argentina and University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. He is one of the Assessors for the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India (NAAC) and he is the Founder Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at Goa University. He also holds an additional position of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Foreign Students Advisor at Goa University. He is a member of various academic bodies. He had conducted several national and international conferences. He had been a member of UGC expert committee on Area Studies.
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