Landscape, place and culture
Subtitle: linkages between Australia and India
By: edited by Deb N. Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown and Christopher Conti
Contributors: Indian Association for the Study of Australia
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781443826327
Subjects: Human ecology; Cultural geography; Human geography; History
Description: "This collection of essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological, social, economic, and, in particular, the cultural dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. The essays provide many levels of focus on the environment, place and culture. Some evoke appreciation of particular 'places,' either in India or Australia. Many explore how literature has treated 'landscape,' while some are comparative studies of cultural, historical and political development. The essays arise from a particular gathering of scholars: The East India chapter of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA) held its inaugural international conference in Kolkata on 22-23 January 2009. Much of the work is comparative, exploring common Indian and Australian themes of colonial and postcolonial experience, implications of migration and diaspora, and shared language and literature. The work also explore shared environmental crisis, manifest in landscapes such as the Mouths of the Ganges and Australia's Murray Darling Basin. Such comparisons indicate our shared experience of the 'crisis' of ecological, social, economic and cultural sustainability. As human future is colonized through environmental degradation, and determined by human migration and shared culture and values, our relationship to 'place' is revitalized and reassessed. We seek simultaneously a reconciliation between humans and a realignment of the human-nature relationship. This is the most basic meaning of social and ecological sustainability"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: Connecting cultures. The two way flow : connecting cultures, understanding others / Sanjukta Dasgupta. Landscape and identity in 19th century poetry of Australia / Santosh K. Sareen; title: pt. 2: Place, space, rivers : in fact and fiction. "Magic of dawn" : early travelling along  the Murray / Rick Hosking. The river is three-quarters empty : some literary takes on rivers and landscapes in India and Australia / Paul Sharrad; title: pt. 3: History : explorations/exchanges. The wreck of the barque James Service from Calcutta to Melbourne, July 1878 : commercial and cultural trade between India and Australia / Andrew Hassam. War in black and white : an Indian perception of Australian participation in the First World War / Debamita Banerjee; title: (cont.)  pt. 4: Museums and exhibitions : showcasing the empire. Colonial objects : T.N. Mukharji and Melbourne's Indian collections / Cherie McKeich. Return of the revenant : re-imaging Calcutta International Exhibition (1883) through Australian newspapers / Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay; title: pt. 5: Re-mapping Australia and India : convergences and divergences. The spark of rebellion : Dacoits and bushrangers / Jati Sankar Mondal. Unearthing the first native-born Australian novelist : reading "Wanderings in India" as a cross-cultural text / Sarbojit Biswas. Bollywood in Austrlian style : re-imagining the nation's 'multiculturalism' through silver screen / Arindam Das. Tracing tramjatra : toward a participatory aesthetic politics / Mick Douglas. A tale of two cities : Project 'Tramjatra', scroll paintings of Kolkata and autohistoria / Sagar Dan; title: pt. 6: Aboriginal issues. Water, soap and sanitation : assimilationist whitewash and stolen generations narratives in South-West Australia / Susan Hosking. Native newspaper and colonial owner : a study of "The Flinders Island Chronicle" and "Samachar Durpun" / Angshuman Kar; title: pt. 7: Diaspora and the cultural imaginary. Terrains of self-fashioning : indian diasporic fiction in Australia / Sanghamitra Dalal.