Research
Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES


BOOK CHAPTERS

Journal Articles

• Sarwal, Amit and David Lowe. 2021. “‘Behind the White Curtain’: Indian Students and Researchers in Australia, 1901-1950.” History of Education Review. DOI 10.1108/HER-07-2020-0044.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2019. “‘Think Imperially’: Indian Journalists’ Goodwill Visits to White Australia, 1927 and 1947.” Asian Ethnicity 21.1: pp. 160-178.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2018 “‘A Kangaroo and Bradman”: Indian journalists’ visit to Australia under the Colombo Plan, 1950–1957.” Journalism Studies 20.6: pp. 840-856.
• Singh, Amit and Sarwal, Amit. 2017. “Paraspara, Encounters and Confluences: India’s Soft Power Objective in the Indo-Pacific Region.” Politics and Policy 45.5 (October): pp. 733-761.
• Sarwal, Amit and Walker, David. 2015. “Staging a Cultural Collaboration: Louise Lightfoot and Ananda Shivaram’s First Indian Dance Tour of Australia, 1947-1951.” Dance Chronicle 38.3 (December): pp. 303-35.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2014. “Beyond Home and into the World: Family in the Short Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Antipodes 28.2 (December): 306-18.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2014. “Louise Lightfoot and Ibetombi Devi: The Second Manipuri Dance Tour of Australia, 1957.” Dance Research 32.2 (Autumn): pp. 208-32.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2014. “Louise Lightfoot and Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh: The First Manipuri Dance Tour of Australia, 1951.” South Asian Popular Culture 12.2: pp. 89-110.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2013. “Narratives of ‘Marginal’ Men: An Analysis of Selected Short Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Culture, Society and Masculinities 5.1 (Spring): pp. 59-74.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2012. “‘Element of Romanticization’: Sensory and Spatial Locations in the Narratives of Indian Diaspora in Australia.” New Literature in English, Spl. issue of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 4.2 (December): pp. 153-62.
• Sarwal, Amit. “ ‘Their Own Authors’: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Working Women in Australia.” Interactions: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1.4 (October): pp. 8-22.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2012. “Rebel and the Homemaker: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Women in Australia.” StreeLipi: An International Journal of Feminist StudiesII (July-August): pp. 1-10.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2012. “A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location in the Short Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” South Asian Diaspora 2 (September): pp. 195-213.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2012. “An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice, Racism and Indifference in the Short Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Journal of the Department of English (Vidyasagar University) 9: 7-30.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2011. “Looking Back, Imagining Home: A Study of Selected Indo-Australian Diasporic Short Stories.” Lemuria (July): 30-42.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2006. “Movi(e)ng a Legend: The Iconic Significance of Ned Kelly.” Australian Studies, issue of Seva-Bharati Journal of English Studies 2 (January): pp. 58-65.

Book Chapters

• Sarwal, Amit. 2018. “Class and Caste Consciousness: The Narratives of Indian Sub-continental Diaspora in Australia.” Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation. Ed. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). pp. 254-277.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2016. “Real, Imagined and Mythologised: (Re)presentation of Lost Home in the Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging: Indo-Australian Perspectives. Ed. Neelima Kanwar. New Delhi: Authors Press. pp. 221-243.
• De, Sanchari and Sarwal, Amit. 2016. “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Dreams, Desires and Aspirations in Bollywood Films Shot in Australia.” Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations. Ed. Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra (New York: Routledge). pp. 280-295.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2015. “Modi is the Message: A View from Down Under.” India Election 2014. Einar Thorsen and Chindu Sreedharan. Bournemouth, UK: Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community, Bournemouth University. pp. 220-224.
• Prateek and Sarwal, Amit. 2014. “Hinglish Cinema: The Confluence of East and West in Bollywood.” Bollywood and Its Other(s): Towards New Configurations. Ed. Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal, and Parichay Patra (London: Palgrave Macmillan). pp. 161-73.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2013. “South Asian Immigrants, Sports Culture, and Public Diplomacy in Australia.” Enriched Relations: Public Diplomacy in Australian-Indian Relations. Ed. David Lowe and Amit Sarwal (New Delhi: Readworthy Publishers). pp. 122-147.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2013. “A Brief History of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Introductory Chapter. Bridging Imaginations: South Asian Diaspora in Australia. Ed. Amit Sarwal (New Delhi: Readworthy Publishers). pp. 1-57.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2013. “ ‘Another World, Another Future’: Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia.” Bridging Imaginations: South Asian Diaspora in Australia. Ed. Amit Sarwal (New Delhi: Readworthy Publishers). pp. 257-81.
• Sarwal, Amit and Sarwal, Reema. 2011. “ ‘Aussies Go Bolly’: Australian Journeys through Indian Cinemascape.” India and Australia: Bridging Different Worlds. Ed. Auriol Weigold and Brian Stoddart (New Delhi: Readworthy Publishers). 178-95.
• Sarwal, Amit and Sarwal, Reema. 2009. “Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies and India.” Introductory Chapter. Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications). pp. lix-lxxv.
• Sarwal, Amit and Sarwal, Reema. 2009. “Creative Nation: Approaching Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies.” Introductory Chapter. Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader. E Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (New Delhi: SSS Publications). pp. XXVI-XLIX. Rpt. in 2011. Introducing Australian Society and Culture, ed. Hu Zhuang-lin (Peking: Peking University Press). pp. 174-200.
• Sarwal, Amit and Sarwal, Reema. 2007. “The Critical Scene: Theory on/from Down Under.” Australian Studies Now: A Reader. Ed. Andrew Hassam with Amit Sarwal (New Delhi: Indialog Publications). 30-47.
• Sarwal, Amit and Kansal, Reema. 2006. “Okonkwo’s Sacrifice: Through Indian Eyes.” Chinua Achebe: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Ed. Mala Pandurang (New Delhi: Pencraft International). 97-110.
• Kansal, Reema and Sarwal, Amit. 2006. “Conflict, Grief and Guilt in The Green Gardener and Other Stories.” The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra. Ed. Jaydeep Sarangi and G. S. Jha (New Delhi: Sarup and Sons). 2-13.
• Sarwal, Amit. 2006. “Is there an Indian Film Theory?” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape, Amit Sarwal and Aneeta Rajendran (New Delhi: Mantra Books). 472-86.
• Sarwal, Amit and Kansal, Reema. 2006. “Through Australian Eyes: Theory from Down Under.” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape, Amit Sarwal and Aneeta Rajendran (New Delhi: Mantra Books). 155-68.
• Sarwal, Amit and Rajendran, Aneeta. 2006. “African Studies.” English Studies, Indian Perspectives. Ed. Makarand Paranjape, Amit Sarwal and Aneeta Rajendran (New Delhi: Mantra Books). 174-93.