Introduction: Dynamics and dilemmas of globalisation -- PART I: MAKING SENSE OF GLOBALISATION -- Justice, Globalisation and Diverse Conceptual Worlds / Michael Leahy -- Ontology of Permanence and Change: A Critique of Globalisation / A. Raghuramaraju -- Neo-liberal Hyperglobalism in Australian Political Thought / Geoffrey Stokes -- The Numerical Small: casualty of hyperglobalisation / Purushottama Bilimoria -- PART II: GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALISATION -- Globalisation and Indian Federalism: Re-assertion of States' Rights / Harihar Bhattacharyya -- Challenges of Globalisation in Urban Local Governance / Sudha Mohan -- Community Governance and Rural Regeneration in a Globalised World / Kevin O'Toole -- Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in South India: 'Sun rise' Industrialisation or Global Cost-shifting of Dirty Goods Manufacturing / G. Vijay -- India's Drug Multinationals: Growth Strategies and Global Industry Dynamics / Hans Löfgren -- PART III: EXPERIENCING GLOBALISATION -- 'The Good Australians': Anglo-Indians, Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism / Glenn D'Cruz -- Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance / Stan van Hooft -- Late Marxism and Parliamentary Government: Indian Communism Today / Geoff Robinson -- PART IV: INDIAN-AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS AND SECURITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION -- Indo-Australian Relations in the Post-Cold War Period / Y. Yagama Reddy and Ken Boutin -- Indo-Australian Relations: Beyond Indifference / Gary Smith -- Terror, Power and Protest / Andrew Vandenberg -- Globalisation, 'Glocalisation' and South Asian Insecurity / B. Ramesh Babu