Introduction and Overview

Abstract

This book grew out of an experience in learning, sharing and recognition that has continued to happen between India and Canada for 50 years. Credit for this is goes the dream of Lal Bahadur Shastri and the political will that actualized it in 1968 with the founding of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. As an experience that plots a fascinating journey of how we learn to evolve bonds between these two nations, this experience of sharing also facilitated and firmed up many academic linkages. These linkages continue to bear fruit cutting across disciplinary boundaries and contribute to multiple dialogues across knowledge systems. This intangible value recognizes the cultural investment in such a system of networks. In the process, it has ensured access to much more than information with the right emphasis on the recognition and understanding of people. We learn and recognize another way of what it means to be nations.