With degrees from universities in Agra and Leeds, the latter where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy, he was an editor for two years with the Times of India Press in Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) and migrated to Canada in 1963, joining the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (since 1974 the University of Regina).
Cowasjee is the writer and editor of over twenty books, including
Goodbye to Elsa (1974);
Mulk Raj Anand: Coolie: an assessment (1976);
Nude therapy (1978);
So Many Freedoms: Major Fiction of Mulk-Raj Anand (1978);
The last of the maharajas: A screen play based on Mulk Raj Anand"s Private life of an Indian Prince (1980);
Modern Indian Fiction (1981);
Suffer little children (1982);
Stories from the Raj (1983);
Women Writers of the Raj (1990);
Studies in Indian and Anglo-Indian Fiction (1995);
The Assistant Professor (2000). He has said “…I am a Canadian citizen, though my I sell much better in the United Kingdom and India than I do in Canada…. Perhaps my work lacks Canadian content and sensibility.
