The papers collected in the volume are selections from the conference proceedings of an international conference on “Re-mapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India”. This volume particularly explores various intersections of history, culture and environment in the discourse of cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. It builds on the commonality of cultural networks, the intercolonial history of encounter and exchange, and the Indian diasporic presence in Australia, and looks forward to a future in terms of a developing bilateral relationship between Australia and India.
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is Professor of English and Director of the Academic Staff College at Burdwan University. He is the Secretary of IASA (Eastern Region). He gave a course of lectures at the University of Vienna and the University of Salzburg, and has also visited the University of Edinburgh and Mansfield College with assistance from the British Council. He has worked at Northern Illinois University, the University of Chicago and State University of New York on the Fulbright Exchange Program, and has held visiting positions at Monash University, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong. He is currently Honorary Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University.