Indo-Australian relations : encounters beyond the state / edited by Phillip Darby.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Postcolonial Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (June 2015)--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Decentring the state: perspectives from the encounter between India and Australia / Phillip Darby -- 2. International relations as variations on everyday human relations / Phillip Darby -- 3. Examinations, access, and inequity within the empire: Britain, Australia and India, 1890 -- 1910 / Kama Maclean -- 4. Two places and three times: fragments retrieved of India and Australia in the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s / Jim Masselos -- 5. Reason and lovelessness: Tagore, war crimes, and Justice Pal / Barry Hill -- 6. Queering the pitch: race, class, gender and nation in the Indo-Australian encounter / Sankaran Krishna -- 7. Applied theatre and political change in Bhutan / Fregmonto J. Stokes -- 8. cultural politics of shit: class, gender and public space in India / Ira Raja -- 9. Zones, corridors, and postcolonial capitalism / Ranabir Samaddar -- 10. Australindia: the geography of imperial desire / Paul Carter.

This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states. It examines how race, class and gender shape conceptions of the two nations, whose voices are heard and whose are not, and the politics that emerge from sport, culture, the drive for development as well as from language and the poetic. The book seeks to challenge the primacy of the state in determining the character of the nation and its monopoly of relations with other peoples. To this end, it looks to everyday life to find linkages not only between India and Australia but also extending through the South and Southeast Asian regions. This book was published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.