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The Strange Business at Bombay and Madras single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 The Strange Business at Bombay and Madras
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Demon Bowler and Other Cricket Stories Dal Stivens , Collingwood : Outback Press , 1979 Z361320 1979 selected work short story Collingwood : Outback Press , 1979 pg. 29-44
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 39 no. 1 March 1979 Z636122 1979 periodical issue 1979 pg. 47-57
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Of Sadhus and Spinners : Australian Encounters with India Bruce Bennett (editor), S. K. Sareen (editor), Susan Cowan (editor), Asha Kanwar (editor), Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 Z1615496 2009 anthology short story prose extract 'Despite a shared history of British imperialism, and commonalities like the English language, a democratic polity and a craze for cricket, Australians and Indians know very little about each other of sadhus and spinners attempts to correct this with a range of stories that trace the chequered history of interactions between the two nations from John Langs The Mohammedan mother (1859) to Yasmine Gooneratnes masterpiece (2002), the stories in this anthology bring to the fore a variety of literary responses to Indo-Australian encounters there are stories here of Australian visitors to India and stories about and by Indians-immigrants or temporary visitors-in Australia thoughtful, exploratory and often just wide-eyed in its observation of strange new worlds, the anthology provides insights into an array of fascinating cross-cultural encounters.' (Publication summary) Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 pg. 115-125
Subjects:
  • Mumbai,
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    India,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Chennai,
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    India,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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