Marlène Laruelle - Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies

Indian Perceptions and Strategies

Edited by

MARLNE LARUELLE
George Washington University, USA

and

SBASTIEN PEYROUSE,
Johns Hopkins University, USA

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Mapping Central Asia : Indian perceptions and strategies.

1. IndiaForeign relationsAsia, Central. 2. Asia, CentralForeign relationsIndia. 3. GeopoliticsAsia, Central.
I. Laruelle, Marlne. II. Peyrouse, Sbastien.
327.54058-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mapping Central Asia : Indian perceptions and strategies / [edited] by Marlne Laruelle and Sbastien Peyrouse.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-0985-4 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-9379-1 (ebook)

1. IndiaRelationsAsia, Central. 2. Central, AsiaRelationsIndia. 3. GeopoliticsAsia, Central. I. Laruelle, Marlne. II. Peyrouse, Sbastien.

JZ1737.A55M37 2011

327.54058dc22

2011007732

ISBN 9781409409854 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315593791 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317100959 (ebk-ePUB)

Ajay Darshan Behera is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is also the Coordinator of the Pakistan Studies Program at the Academy. His main areas of research are foreign policy and security issues in South Asia, political violence, insurgency and terrorism, conflicts and conflict management, Indias foreign policy, political development and foreign policy of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining the Academy of Third World Studies, he was a Senior Fellow and Officiating Director at the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, University of Jammu, Jammu. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and as an Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC in 20012002 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 19971998. He has published several research articles and edited volumes and journals in India and abroad on non-military dimensions of security, transnational security threats, confidence-building and conflict resolution, ethnic conflict, insurgencies and terrorism, and light weapons. He is the author of Violence, Terrorism and Human Security in South Asia, and The Politics of Violence and Development in South Asia, and co-editor with Mathew Joseph of Pakistan in a Changing Strategic Context.

Suchandana Chatterjee is a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India. Her research interests include regional and connected histories of Eurasia, marginalized identities, representations on Eurasias transition, etc. Her current project is a study of Inner Asias spatiality and resurgent identities. Her publications include three books, The Steppe in History: Essays on a Eurasian Fringe (New Delhi: Manohar, 2010), Politics and Society in Tajikistan in the aftermath of the Civil War (Greenwood Press and Hope India Publications, 2002), Mind and Vision: Perceptions of Reform in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (New Delhi: Bookwell, 2006), and several research articles. She has co-edited books on Eurasia and has presented research papers in international conferences within India and in Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, Japan and Europe. She also presented invited talks at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle in 2008 and Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido, in 2007. She writes for the biennial journal Central Eurasian Reader (Paris). She was awarded doctorate degree by Calcutta University in 2002 for her thesis Emirate of Bukhara, 18681924: Encounters with transition.

Sreemati Ganguli is a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies in Kolkata. She holds a PhD on Indo-Russian relations, published under the title Indo-Russian Relations. The Making of A Relationship 19922002 (Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2009). She is preparing a second book on Russias relations with the Central Asian states and is currently working on a project on the contemporary relevance of the Silk Roads. She was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University. Her research interests include foreign and energy policies in Russia, Russias relations with the post-Soviet space, Russia-West relations and international security.

Surendra Gopal is a retired Professor of History, at Patna University, Patna. He has published a series of articles on Indian diaspora in Iran, Russia and Central Asia from the 16th to the 20th century. He has also published a book and several research papers on Indias maritime trade in medieval times. He is the editor of India and Central Asia. Cultural, Economic and Political links (Delhi: Shipra Publications, for the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2001), and the author of Dialogue and Understanding. Central Asia and India. The Soviet and the Post-Soviet Era (Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2005), and Indian Freedom-Fighters in Tashkent: 19171922. Contesting Ideologies: Nationalism, Pan Islamism and Marxism (Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2002).

Mushtaq A. Kaw is a Professor at the Centre of Central Asian Studies (CCAS), University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He specializes in Central Asian and Kashmir history (medieval and modern) and also deals with the contemporary issues: cultural change and continuity, religious resurgence, social transformation, agrarian reforms, economic restructuring, ethnic conflicts, resource sharing, regional security and development, art, craft and architecture. He has authored/coauthored four books, the latest one being the proceedings of a 4-day international conference on