Ethnicity and Identity: India and Canada is a collection of the papers presented in a 3-Day National Seminar organized by the Centre for Canadian Studies, Kannur University in March 2007 with financial assistance from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi, under the Canadian Studies development programme. Scholars from various disciplines like Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Development Studies, Literature and Comparative Studies have accepted our invitation and presented papers. Most of them have revised their papers to the current version and a few articles are invited from eminent scholars to enrich the volume. We believe the essays included in this volume on the theory and praxis of ethnicity and identity in multicultural societies and its multifarious ramifications in the globalised world are relevant and useful to scholars pursuing study and research with an interdisciplinary perspective.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M Dasan
Dr. M. Dasan is currently Professor and UGC Research Awardee in the Department of Studies in English, and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies, Kannur University. Formerly he was the Head of the Department and has relinquished his headship consequent on being selected for UGC postdoctoral research Award. His first book Racial Consciousness in Black American Drama was the subject of this doctoral dissertation. He has also edited Beyond Resistance: Critical Essays on Canadian First Nations Writing, Rethinking Multi-culturalism: Critical Essays on American Literature and Discourses of Discontent: Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature. He has presented papers in many international seminars held in India and abroad. He has also visited and lectured in various universities in UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia. He has published a number of research papers on a wide variety of topics like Culture, Gender, Human Rights, Environment, Land Rights and Literature. He has contributed considerably to the promotion of Canadian Studies and Research in India. He had also held various academic and administrative posts. He had served as Registrar, Director of College Development Council, Co-ordinator, Post Graduate Diploma in English Communication and Programme Officer, National Service Scheme of University of Calicut and Dean, Faculty of English and Foreign Languages, Syndicate member, Chairman Board of Studies and Board of Examinations and Director of the Thalassery Campus of Kannur University.
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