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The Southern Silk Route

I would like to reconfirm that it is a book of immense academic value and its publication will open up a new vista of India-China understanding, cooperation and collaboration.

P ROF . S WARAN S INGH
Centre for International Politics,
Organization and Disarmament
School of International Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which running from China to Myanmar ends up in Assam. The route has historical importance as it served as a major artery of ancient trade articles. The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences attempts to sketch out the historical dimensions of the route and shows the contemporary dynamics, both positive and negative. It poses the question how history can extend a lesson in contemporary contexts.

The book has two parts-theoretical articles on the route judging from a scholars perspective on one hand and explorers insight in the practical perspective on the other, thus making it really interesting both for the scholar and the lay reader.

Lipi Ghosh is Professor and Head in the Department of South & South East Asian Studies at University of Calcutta. Her current interest lies in the issue of connectivities among Asian countries. As a historian, her basic idea is to judge contemporary international relations in historical backdrops. She is a former Fulbright Scholar, Asia Fellow, CWIT Fellow and ICCR Chair Professor to Lund University.

First published 2019

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ISBN: 978-0-367-22907-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-27756-6 (ebk)

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by Manohar, New Delhi 110 002

Contents

LIPI GHOSH AND PAULA BANERJEE

HARAPRASAD RAY

GEOFF WADE

ZHAO BOLE

ELIZABETH MOORE

YANG BIN

HE PING

LIPI GHOSH

SWAPNA BHATTACHARYA (CHAKRABORTI)

SAYANTANI SEN MAZUMDAR

SUKANYA SHARMA

M. SHAHIDUL ISLAM

JAYANTA KUMAR RAY AND BINODA KUMAR MISHRA

FALGUNI SEN

VAMSI VAKULABHARANAM

REN JIA, WANG CHONGLI, NIU HONGBIN, LU XIAOKUN, GUO SUIYAN, DENG LAN AND JIANG MAOXIA

Guide

Figures

Maps

THIS VOLUME ON Southern Silk Road comes at a moment when the nature of the economic and political space around the subcontinent is evolving rapidly. As we rethink our mental maps amidst the rise of Asia, especially China. Lipi Ghosh has brought together an impressive group of scholars to reflect on the past and future of regional connectivity between eastern subcontinent, south-western China and South-East Asia. The idea of restoring the historic silk roads connecting different parts of Europe and Asia has been an alluring one. It has acquired much political and economic traction since the Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the expansive Belt and Road Initiative (2013) that seeks to build overland and maritime corridors linking China to various corners of the vast Eurasian landmass and Chinas industrialized eastern sea-board to the far away littorals in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Similar projects for integrating the Eurasian landmass and the Indo-Pacific were pursued since the end of the cold war by European Union and the United States. But it is President Xis Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that has drawn unprecedented global interest, thanks to the extraordinary scale of Beijings planned investments, its decision to create new financial institutions to back the BRI projects, the personal political push from President Xi and the potential long term strategic implications. Japan, which has put significant resources for decades into modernizing the infrastructure in Asia over the last many decades, has announced a big new push for regional connectivity with its Partnership for Quality Infrastructure and the strategy for A Free and Open Indo-Pacific (201516).

These initiatives have opened up extraordinary opportunity for India to address its massive unmet infrastructure needs. But they have also generated profound political concerns in Delhi about the impact of Chinas expanding economic influence and growing military footprint in the subcontinent, where India has long enjoyed primacy. As a result, India has shed its traditional aversion for collaboration with other major powers in the subcontinent. After long resisting American strategic presence in the Indian Ocean, Delhi is now actively working with the United States for stability in the littoral. India is teaming up with Japan to promote connectivity within and across its borders. Delhi is also finding ways to work with Tokyo on infrastructure development in third world countries across the Indo-Pacific and especially the subcontinent. India has also promised to step up its own unilateral efforts to turn its rhetoric on regional connectivity into tangible outcomes.

Delhis engagement with China on the BRI has been tentative and ambivalent to say the least. Although Delhi was among the first to join Chinas Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, it has refused to politically endorse President Xis BRI. India has expressed reservations on the Chinas Pakistan Economic Corridor, which runs through the territories of Kashmir that India claims. India has also been wary of Chinas proposal for a Trans-Himalayan corridor connecting China, India and Nepal. Delhi has tended to see Beijings Maritime Silk Road as an economic adjunct to Beijings plans to project military power into the Indian Ocean.

The one exception to this negative discourse has been Delhis formal engagement with China on Beijings so-called Kunming Initiative that seeks to connect the Yunnan province with northern Burma, Bangladesh and eastern India. Although the four countries are yet to agree on a framework for building a corridor, the discussions have opened the door for reconnecting regions that were once intimately interlinked through the Southern Silk Road. In lending historic sensibility to the contemporary discourse on the Southern Silk Road, Ghosh, Banerjee and their collaborators help us reimagine the possibilities for a forgotten but significant region.

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