Indian Diaspora: Study of Emerging Sandwich Cultures

Surendra K. Gupta is Senior ICSSR Fellow working on a comparative study of Indian Diaspora, Earlier, he taught at the University of Sagar, Miles College, Birmingham (USA), and Punjabi University, Patiala. For a brief period, he was UNESCO Consultant at Bangkok. He is author of Citizen in the Making, India in the Year AD 2000 (with Iqbal Narain), Conflict and Communication: Mass Upsurge in Assam (with Indira B. Gupta), and Indians in Thailand.

Yogesh Atal (b.9 Oct. 1937) has had a long and distinguished career, first and UNESCO's regional Adviser for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific, and then as its Principal Director in charge of co-ordination of work related to the World Summit for Social development help in Copenhagen in 1995. He also collaborated with the International Social Science Council in developing its Programme of Comparative research on Poverty (CROP). He is author and editor of numerous books and articles, including, The Changing Frontiers of caste, Local Communities and national Politics, Social Sciences –the Indian Scene, Building a nation, Indian Sociology from where to where, understanding the Social Sphere: The Village and beyond (co-editor), Mandate for Political Transition and the Poverty Question: Search for Solutions.