India and Inner Asia: commerce, culture and connectivity

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Inner Asian Issues -- 2 Buddhist Heart of Asia in the Works of Nicholas Roerich: A Study -- 3 Harmonizing Ethnicity at the Contested Borderlands: A Case Study of Uyghurs of Xinjiang -- 4 Inner Asia in the "Geopolitical Game" of the Early 20th Century: Impact on the Trajectory of Mongol-Seeking Independence -- 5 Socio-Economic Impact of Climate Change: Experience From Inner Asia -- Part II Geopolitics and Geo-Economics -- 6 Contemporary Geopolitical and Geo-Economic Significance of Inner Asia -- 7 The Region and Ideational Security: The Geopolitical Belonging of Central Asia in Inner Asia -- 8 Regional Cooperation and Sustainable Stability in Central Asia -- 9 New Foreign Policy Discourse on Silk Road in the Post-Cold War Period -- 10 Silk Road Shenanigans -- 11 Afghanistan as the Belt and Road Pivot for Asia -- Part III Indian Connection -- 12 India and Its Inner Asian Neighbourhood in the Post-Cold War Era -- 13 India's Connectivity With Eurasia: INSTC and India-Iran-Afghanistan-Central Asia Transport and Transit Corridor -- 14 Indian Trade Along Afghan Routes From 6th Century BCE to 19th Century CE -- 15 India's New Diplomacy in Central Asia: Analysing the First India-Central Asia Summit -- 16 Conclusion -- Index.

"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 volume examines issues of geopolitics, geoeconomics, climate change, 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 of 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"--