Nation-Building, Education and Culture in India and Canada

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview.- Chapter 2 Community Colleges In India And Canada: A Comparative Analysis  Brijender Singh Panwar.- Chapter 3 A Roadmap For India-Canada Collaboration In The Higher Education In India's Northeastern Region Suwa Lal Jangu.- Chapter 4 Pluri-Lingual Education: Step Towards Multicultural Citizenry in India and Canada  Papia Sengupta.- Chapter 5 Examining The Cosmopolitan And The Local In Science And Nature: Building A Canadian/Indian Research And Education Partnership - Gordon McOuat.- Chapter 6 Youth and Education: Interrogating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Canada and India Debashree Dattaray.- Chapter 7 Empowering People: Implementing 'Eco-Museum' for Sustainable Development for the Meenas of Western India and Métis of Western Canada Nandini Sinha Kapur.- Chapter 8 Climate Change and Interlinking of Indian Rivers: Lessons from Canadian Inter Basin Water Transfer Experiences - Deepak Kumar Das.- Chapter 9 Foreign Policy Of Canada Vis-À-Vis India Under Stephen Harper From Cold Storage To Warmth Of Billion-Dollar Trade K. Mansi.- Chapter 10 The Inclusion of Competition Clauses in Bilateral Trade Agreements between India and Canada: Issues and Challenges Ritu Gupta.- Chapter 11 Triggering Conversations about Mental Health Anuradha Sovani.- Chapter 12 Monitoring and Evaluation of Government programs in India and Canada - K. Gayithri.- Chapter 13 Paradigms of Art Practice: The Artist within the Community Gitanjali Kolanad.- Chapter 14 Feeling Well Kalaripayat:  An Embodied Practice of Insight Problem Solving Hans Wolfgramm.- Chapter 15 Sport History as an Area of Comparative Study between Canada and India John G. Reid.- Chapter 16 Training in the Homeland: Negotiating Artistic Travel in the Transnational Field of Indian Classical Dance Sitara Thobani.- Chapter 17

Dr. K. Gayithri is a Professor of Economics in the Center for Economic Studies and Policy at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. She has been a recipient of Shastri Indo Canadian faculty research fellowship twice to undertake comparative fiscal studies at the Carleton University, Canada. She also served the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute as an Executive Committee member. She has undergone training at the Duke Center for International development, Duke University, on aspects relating to 'public budgeting and financial management'. She has also participated in the executive education program on 'Public financial management in a changing world' at the John F. Kennedy School of government at the Harvard University, Boston.

Dr. Suchorita Chattopadhyay is the founder and coordinator of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Jadavpur University. She is also a member of the Indian Members' Council, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute since 2005. She has organized 12 national and international seminars and conferences on Canadian Studies and has edited 5 volumes on Canadian Studies. She also teaches regularly at the Centre for Translations of Indian Literatures at Jadavpur University and also serves on their Academic/Advisory Committee. She is also an Executive Committee member of the Comparative Literature Association of India.She was the joint coordinator of the XIth Biennial International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in January 2013.

Dr. B. Hariharan is a Professor at the Institute of English, and Director of the UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He completed a Major Research Project funded by the UGC. As member of the editorial team, he prepared introductory course material on Canadian Studies hosted at www.canadastukeralauniv.edu.in. He has also published book length study on the