Marika Vicziany (Monash University)

Dr. Marika Vicziany
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Faculty of Business and Economics 
and
Diretor, National Centre for South Asian Studies
Monash Asia Institute
Monash University
Clayton Victoria Australia 3168

phone: 61/3-9905-9259
fax:   61/3-9905-5370
fax:   61/3-9576-2960 (AH fax)
email: marika.vicziany@arts.monash.edu.au

Description of work:

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Areas of speciality - economic development of South Asia in the long
run; contemporary public policy; mass povery and untouchables in India;
transfer of technology and foreign companies in India, including
Australian companies; Indian companies in Malaysia; the security
situation in South Asia, with special ref. to nuclear weapons.

SOME PUBLICATIONS:

A.	Books and edited monographs/journal collections

Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany, 1998, The Untouchables:
Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, pp. 289.

Marika Vicziany 1995, Hindi-Urdu: Unlocking Australia's Language
Potential, National Languages and Literacy Institute, Melbourne, pp.50.

Marika Vicziany and Kenneth McPherson (ed.) 1994, Australia and South
Asia: a Blueprint for 2001, NCSAS, Melbourne, pp.357.

Marika Vicziany (ed.) 1993, Australia-India: Economic Links Past,
Present and Future, Indian Ocean Centre, Perth, pp.156.

Marika Vicziany 1993 guest editor of Indian Temples and Religious
Culture, a special issue of South Asia, vol. XVI,  November, pp. 1-126. 
Introduction by Vicziany pp. 1-13.

Marika Vicziany 1993 guest editor and author of introduction to a
special issue of Asian Studies Review on Economic Liberalisation in
Asia- Its Meaning and Consequences, vol.17, no. 2, November, pp.1-103.
(The collection which I arranged includes work on China, Vietnam, Japan,
Korea and Indonesia).

B.	Textbooks

National Centre for South Asian Studies 1997,  Into India, Curriculum
Corporation, Melbourne.  (Vicziany was the executive producer and senior
editor)

C.	Published commercial/marketing reports

Marika Vicziany and Gabrielle Harrison 1995, Education Export
Opportunities - India, DEETYA/AIEF, Canberra. July, pp.120.

Marika Vicziany and Gabrielle Harrison 1995, Education Export
Opportunities -	Pakistan, DEETYA/AIEF, Canberra, July, pp.100.

Marika Vicziany and Gabrielle Harrison 1995,  Education Export
Opportunities - Sri Lanka, DEETYA/AIEF, Canberra, July, pp.100.

Marika Vicziany and Gabrielle Harrison 1995, Education Export
Opportunities - Bangladesh, DEETYA/AIEF, Canberra, July. pp.100.

Marika Vicziany and Clement Paligaru (compilers) 1995, Australia-India:
A Directory of our Links, NCSAS, Melbourne. 1st edition, pp. 417.

ditto, 2nd edition by Marika Vicziany and Juliet Yee, 1997, in 2 vols.
pp.400


D. Recent Book chapters, journal articles and discussion papers 
(* refereed)

Marika Vicziany 1998, Submissions to Senate Standing Committee Foreign
Affairs and Defence on Indian and Pakistan Nuclear Tests, Hansard,
August- November.

*Marika Vicziany 1998  "Ecological Dimensions of the Development of the
Piparwar Coal Mine, Bihar, Eastern India" in Richard Grove (ed.), Nature
and the Orient, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2 vols.

*Marika Vicziany 1997, "Regionalism and subregionalism - the case of
India", in John Ingleson (ed.), Regionalism, Subregionalism and APEC,
Monash Asia Institute,  Melbourne, pp.189-208.

*Marika Vicziany 1997, "Democracy and the transfer of technology in
India revisited", Asian Studies Review,  Vol. 21, nos. 2-3, November,
pp.47-53.

Marika Vicziany and Samir Chatterjee 1997, Australian Business Attitudes
to India, NCSAS Discussion Paper no. 4, pp.20.

Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany 1996,  "The Untouchables" in
Oliver Mendelsohn & Upendra Baxi  (eds.), The Rights of Subordinated
Peoples, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996 edition, pp.64-117.
First edition published in 1994.

*Marika Vicziany 1996, "Whither India?" in Roger Bell et al.,
Negotiating the Pacific Century: the 'new' Asia, the United States and
George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 129-159.

*Marika Vicziany 1994, "South Asia as an Economic Region", in Marika
Vicziany and Kenneth McPherson (ed.), Australia and Southasia: A
Blueprint for 2001, NCSAS, Melbourne, pp.27-37