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Introduction
I primarily work on issues of India's Foreign Policy and International Relations of South Asia.
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October 2018 - September 2024
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India has used civilizational discourses as part of its foreign policy to articulate its rise and rightful place in the world order. This article primarily examines India's civilizational arguments in south Asia. India's civilizational arguments in the region demand scrutiny as the neighbourhood is a theatre of contestation between territorial Indi...
India’s security and defence have been perhaps the most dominant theme in the discussions of its foreign policy. Security and defence, as a subset of foreign policy, understandably assume greater importance as they are directly linked with survival along with development. The present chapter looks into three questions. First, what stands as a secur...
India has used civilizational discourses as part of its foreign policy to articulate its rise and rightful place in the world order. This article primarily examines India's civilizational arguments in south Asia. India's civilizational arguments in the region demand scrutiny as the neighbourhood is a theatre of contestation between territorial Indi...
India has consistently demarcated the Bay of Bengal as a security space in standard realist terms which in turn leads to its conversion as a zone of security. The article probes two questions in this context. First, what drives India's insecurity and its imperative to control the Bay of Bengal? Apart from the traditional defence imperative, India p...
The chapter delves into the idea of South Asian identity viewed through the lens of state-society interactions in the region. It argues that two simultaneous orders prevail and interact in South Asia. The dominance of states since decolonization created the politics of difference and denies a cohesive South Asian identity. However, this state-led o...
Did the pandemic produce an effect in the nature of politics in West Bengal? Despite an intuition that a pandemic of such unprecedented nature and scale would give rise to politics with a difference, evidence suggests that the politics of the pandemic is rooted in continuities rather than ruptures. The paper takes the case of the Indian province of...
Post-colonial construction of the state order and emerging climate change issues are orders which stand opposed to each other. While one is built on territorial sovereignty, the other de-territorialises and produces transboundary effects. The chapter uses the Bay of Bengal region as a case to situate this contradiction. The chasm between these two...
This chapter is an attempt to explain the refugee situation in South Asia as we try to unpack how refugees are made, why they are seldom owned up by their home or host states, and the imperatives that guide the state’s gaze at them. In three interrelated arguments, we explain how refugees are part of the constitutive practise of modern South Asia....
Regions are contested and interpretive spaces. These conceptions and interpretations vary over time and are dependent on agencies, structures and practises. While most regional conceptualisations are Western offshoots, changes in global governance and global economy have created avenues for newer and more non-linear conception of regions. The regio...
Public histories are narratives straddling across space and time, challenging the inside/outside distinction. Indian foreign policy makers have engaged in a selective remembering of the past in an attempt to script the making of a postcolonial state. The study takes up three cases from India’s foreign policy in elucidating how different imagination...
