Professor Prem Misir, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Fiji, Fiji.Contributing Authors:Ashrufa Faruqee, formerly of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.Brij V. Lal, Professor Emeritus, School of Culture, History and Language at Australian National University, Australia. Indrani Sen, Associate Professor, Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi New Delhi, India. Karen A. Ray, formerly of Marianopolis College, Montreal, Canada.Pieter Cornelis Emmer, former Professor of European Expansion and Migration, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.Rajesh Chandra, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.Ravindra. K. Jain, formerly Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.Rosemarijn Hoefte, Professor in the History of Suriname, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Shobha Nijhawan, Associate Professor of Hindi Language and Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada.Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA.Verene A. Shepherd, Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society; Professor/University Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies and Professor of Social History at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies.
