Lakshmi?s Footprints and Paisley Patterns

Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelationships is a unique collection of essays that comprehensively discusses the nature of interrelationship of India and Scotland spread over the last two centuries.

It covers areas such as nature writing with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Geddes, role of the formative history of Scottish Churches College, Disruption Movement in Scotland and Calcutta, rise of surveillance literature, dichotomy of Homeland and Hostland, Vidyasagar and Scottish transactions, Scottish missionary movement in Kalimpong, Scottish war literature, and interface of Scottish and Indian legal systems.

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Bashabi Fraser is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing and Director of Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University; Honorary Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow and Honorary Vice President of the Association of Literary Studies (ALS), Scotland and an associate Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Professor Emerita at Bankura University, West Bengal, India. Bashabi is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor and academic.

Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is the Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He is also the Secretary of the Indian Association of Scottish Studies. He has published and co-edited many scholarly books, and is the author of innumerable papers. He is also the international contributing editor of the Journal of American History (Indiana, USA). He is the Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.