Re-Imagining Australia and India: Culture and Identity

Alan Mayne holds a Research SA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History and Social Policy in the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. He received a Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1980, and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His Publications include Fever; Squalor & Vice; The Imagined Slum; The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes (with Tim Murray); Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape; Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend; Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia and Building the Village: A History of Australia’s Bendigo Bank.

D. Gopal is Programme Coordinator at the Masters level in the Faculty of Political Science, Coordinator of Australian Studies, School of social Sciences, IGNOU. A Relations, Prof. Gopal obtained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also received training in Distance Education in the Institute of Education, University of London, and has been Visiting Fellow at UK Open University, Milton Keynes. He has contributed extensively to the development of academic programmes, curriculum and course material for IGNOU. His recent interest is the expansion of Australian Studies and he is developing a Post-graduate Diploma in Australian Studies at his University. Among several of his research publications, his latest is Australia in the Emerging Global Order (2002).