INTRODUCTION

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Notes

1 See Pesso‐Miquel and Stierstorfer, Fundamentalism and Literature. Essays from the Muenster conference will be published by Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, in 2008.

2 The up‐to‐date version of the Constitution of India in English is available at ⟨http://india.gov.in/govt/constitutions_india_bak.php#eng⟩ (last accessed 15 April 2007).

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Notes on contributors

Nilufer E. Bharucha

Nilufer E. Bharucha is Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Mumbai. She studied at the Universities of Bombay and Manchester, UK. Her areas of specialization are postcolonial literatures and theory, the literature of the Indian diaspora, the writings of the Parsis and Indian cinema. She has published widely in these areas. She is a Visiting Professor in Postcolonial Indian Literature in English and Indian Cinema at universities in Europe and Canada, and is also on the Global Faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA. Professor Bharucha served on the jury for the Commonwealth Literature Prize in 2001.

Klaus Stierstorfer

Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany. He studied at the universities of Regensburg and Oxford and after training as a secondary school teacher became Associate Professor at the University of Würzburg, then Professor at Düsseldorf and, since 2004, at Muenster. His publications include John Oxenford (1812–1877) as Farceur and Critic of Comedy (1996); the edition, London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies (2001). He is series and volume editor of Women Writing Home, 6 vols (2006).