Auteur: Prakash C. Jain

Dr. Prakash C. Jain is presently on the faculty of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, he taught at the Departments of Sociology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dr. Jain obtained his M.A. (Sociology) degree from Banaras Hindu University and Ph.D. from Carleton University, Ottawa. He was a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth scholarship for his doctoral studies during 1978-83. The author has published a number of research papers in Indian and foreign journals. His research interests include: Social Organisation in Overseas Indian Communities, Social Formations in the Gulf States, and Development and Social Change in India. Currently he is working on a research project Apartheid and Indians in South Africa.