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I am honoured that Professor Neelima Kanwar invited me to write a brief 'Foreword' to this new, exciting collection of essays on Australian literature by Australian and Indian critics. There is by now a long-standing , fine tradition of Indian engagement with Australian literature. One of my own earliest published essays appeared in the The Literary Criterion , edited in Mysore by one of the founding figures in this tradition, C. D. Narasimhaiah, a Special Australian Literature Number from 1980 (Vol. XV, nos 3 & 4). This collection of essays was itself a follow-up to an earlier special number on Australian literature published in the Literary Criterion in 1964 and released in Australia by the Jacaranda Press in 1965. Since that time many more Indian writers and critics have engaged with Australian literature, while a smaller number of Australian critics such as Paul Sharrad and Bill Ashcroft have maintained an ongoing interest in Australian-Indian critical perspectives over several decades. Collaborations such as the present volume have brought a new richness and diversity to 'Indo-Australian Perspectives'.' (Introduction)
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- Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging : Indo-Australian Perspectives 2016 anthology criticism
