Exploring Asia-Pacific: Collection of Essays on Education

Dr. Lipi Ghosh is a historian with specialization in Southeast Asian studies. She has obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Calcutta. Currently she is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. Formerly she was Visiting Scholar at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Maison des Sciences de 1' Hommes, Paris, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Ford Asia Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She has wide range of publications in national and international academic journals. Her other published work is Burma: Myth of French Intrigue (Calcutta, 1994).