1st Edition

India and Inner Asia Commerce, Culture and Connectivity

Edited By Mahesh Ranjan Debata, Selbi Hanova Copyright 2024
236 Pages
by Routledge India

236 Pages
by Routledge India

236 Pages
by Routledge India

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... Read more

 

  1. Introduction

Asoke Kumar Mukerji

 

PART–I

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

 


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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.