1st Edition
India and Inner Asia Commerce, Culture and Connectivity
This book studies India’s historical, socio-cultural, and trade linkages with Inner Asia. Inner Asia includes the landlocked regions within East Asia and North Asia that are part of today's Western China, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Siberia. The book examines issues of geopolitics, geoeconomics, climate change and regional cooperation and discusses the importance of the fabled Silk Road for the countries of Inner Asia. It also analyses the impact India has wielded upon the region through its cultural traits and how Buddhism has remained a binding force between the people of the two regions.
Lucid and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Asian studies, Central Asian studies, area studies, geopolitics, international trade, international relations, defence and strategic studies, diplomacy and foreign policy, and political studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers, bureaucrats, diplomats and think tanks.
- Introduction
Asoke Kumar Mukerji
Inner Asian Issues
2. 2. Buddhist Heart of Asia in the Works of Nicholas Roerich: A Study
Jojan Job
3. Harmonising Ethnicity at the Contested Borderlands: A Case Study of Uyghurs of Xinjiang
Veena Ramachandran
4. Inner Asia in the ‘Geopolitical Game’ of Early 20th Century: Impact on the Trajectory of Mongol-Seeking Independence
Sharad K. Soni
5. Socio-Economic Impact of Climate Change: Experience from Inner Asia
Vikash Kumar
PART–II
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
6. 6. Contemporary Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Significance of Inner Asia
G M Shah
7. The Region and Ideational Security: The Geopolitical Belonging of Central Asia
Selbi Hanova
8. Regional Cooperation and Sustainable Stability in Central Asia
Ajay K. Patnaik
9. New Foreign Policy Discourses on Silk Road in the post-Cold War Period
Ramakrushna Pradhan and Atanu Kumar Mohapatra
10. Silk Road Shenanigans
P. L. Dash
11. Afghanistan as the Belt and Road Pivot in Asia
Satyam
PART– III
Indian Connection
12. India and its Inner Asian Neighbourhood in the post-Cold War Era
Mahesh Ranjan Debata
13. India’s Connectivity with Eurasia: INSTC and Iran-Afghanistan-Central Asia Corridor
Gatikrushna Mahanta
14. Indian Trade along Afghan Routes
Sunita Dwivedi
15. First India-Central Asia Dialogue: Analyzing India’s “New” Diplomacy in Central Asia
Manish S. Dabhade
16. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Mahesh Ranjan Debata, Associate Professor, Centre for Inner Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Selbi Hanova, Independent Researcher, Turkmenistan.
