Canada

The cultural marginalisation of the tribal people in India through the school system in pre- and post-independence India is discussed by drawing parallels with the residential school system that existed in the United States and Canada.

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Trump’s Policies and Billionaire Indian Dreams

Vol. 55, Issue No. 16, 18 Apr, 2020

Romar Correa

Passage from India to America: Billionaire Engineers, Extremist Politics & Advantage to Canada & China by Ignatius Chithelen, Bryant Park Publishers LLC, New York, 2018; pp 212, $40.95 (hardcover).

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'Feminisation of Poverty' and Trade Liberalisation

Vol. 38, Issue No. 18, 03 May, 2003

Archana Dholakia

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Punjabis in Canada

Vol. 37, Issue No. 48, 30 Nov, 2002

Paramjit S Judge

The Making of Little Punjab in Canada: Patterns of Immigration by Archana B Verma; Sage Publications, New Delhi; pp 254, Rs 495.

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Looking Back at the Khalistan Movement

Vol. 36, Issue No. 16, 21 Apr, 2001

Surinder S Jodhka

Sikh Ethnonationalism and the Political Economy of Punjab by Shinder Purewal; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000; pp ix+215, Rs 545.

Terrorism in Punjab: Understanding Grassroots Reality by H K Puri, P S Judge and J S Shekhon; Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1999; pp 200, Rs 395.

Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab by Gurharpal Singh; Macmillan Press, London, 2000; pp xv+231, price not mentioned.

Punjabi Identity in a Global Context, (ed) Pritam Singh and Shinder Singh Thandi; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999; pp xiv+416, Rs 495.

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Canada : Women's Interests and Welfare State

Vol. 36, Issue No. 10, 10 Mar, 2001

Rama Lakshmi

Feminists across Canada are gearing up to fight what they say threatens them most - market forces. The decade of the 1990s has seen a rightward shift in Canadian politics, accompanied by a gradual dismantling of state support to social sector spending - which has simultaneously left in tatters the country's traditional image of a left-leaning, generous economic regime. But they remain a minority, as women have been largely co-opted by the demands of the new system.