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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS A. K. Singh, Indian Students in Britain Foreword by Professor E. Shils. Asia House, London, Leaders Press Private Ltd. Bomba y,xv., 208. Publishing Appendices. There have been a number of studies made in the United States on the and difficulties encountered problems by overseas students who have been from their home environment, for varying periods, into an entirely transplanted have been different social and cultural milieu. Only a few such investigations in Britain and these have been of a general nature referring, for the undertaken most part, to such students as "foreigners" rather than to specific ethnic or cultural categories. Dr. Singh's book gives us valuable insights into the types of stress encountered Indian students in several British universities, and his findings show interesting by and comparisons with those described by such writers as Lambert relationships and Bressler, Coelho, and J. and R. Useem among Indian students in the United States. For student advisers and welfare workers who are working with overseas students this study should be of great assistance in providing a basis for attempts to ameliorate conditions of loneliness, alienation, and academic strain which are educational obviously present and crucial to the success of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

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Brill
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Copyright 1966 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852166X00406
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BOOK REVIEWS A. K. Singh, Indian Students in Britain Foreword by Professor E. Shils. Asia House, London, Leaders Press Private Ltd. Bomba y,xv., 208. Publishing Appendices. There have been a number of studies made in the United States on the and difficulties encountered problems by overseas students who have been from their home environment, for varying periods, into an entirely transplanted have been different social and cultural milieu. Only a few such investigations in Britain and these have been of a general nature referring, for the undertaken most part, to such students as "foreigners" rather than to specific ethnic or cultural categories. Dr. Singh's book gives us valuable insights into the types of stress encountered Indian students in several British universities, and his findings show interesting by and comparisons with those described by such writers as Lambert relationships and Bressler, Coelho, and J. and R. Useem among Indian students in the United States. For student advisers and welfare workers who are working with overseas students this study should be of great assistance in providing a basis for attempts to ameliorate conditions of loneliness, alienation, and academic strain which are educational obviously present and crucial to the success of

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1966

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