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Nilufer E. Bharucha is a Professor of English at the University of Bombay. Her areas of specialization are Postcolonial Literatures and Theories, the Literature of the Raj and Contemporary British Fiction and Translation. She has also published some short stories besides several academic articles. Bharucha has co-edited Indian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment; Postcolonial Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature and Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English. A British Council Scholar at the University of Manchester in 1981-82 and a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the Queen Mary College, University of London in 1994-95, she has lectured and presented papers at several institutes and universities in Europe. Professor Bharucha has been a Visiting Professor at the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg and the University of Cologne in Germany, the University of Barcelona, Spain and the University of Avignon, France, as well as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany. She is also on the Global Faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.