Mapping Central Asia : Indian perceptions and strategies / edited by Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreign policy and myth-making: great game, heartland, and silk roads / Marleǹe Laruelle -- Bukhara in a revolutionary time and its Indian connections / Suchandana Chatterjee -- The opening and closing of direct Indo-Central Asian relations, 1924-1940 / Surendra Gopal -- Perceptions and strategies: India's relations with the Central Asian region / Anita Sengupta -- The revival of the silk roads topic: a contemporary analysis / Sreemati Ganguli -- Domestic and international articulations of the Indian involvement in Central Asia / Seb́astien Peyrouse -- Framing Indo-Central Asian relations, 1990s-2000s / Ajay Patnaik -- India's new look at Central Asia policy: a strategic review / Jagannath P. Panda -- Indo-Central Asian economic relations / Gulshan Sachdeva -- Managing regional geopolitical uncertainty / Marleǹe Laruelle, Seb́astien Peyrouse -- India's policy towards Central Asia: the Pakistan factor / Meena Singh Roy -- Restoring India's links with Central Asia across Kashmir: challenges and opportunities / Mushtaq A. Kaw -- The resurgence of the Taliban and regional security concerns / Ajay Darshan Behera -- The Xinjiang issue: Indian perspectives on Chinese strategies in the far west / K. Warikoo -- Conclusion / Marleǹe Laruelle, Seb́astien Peyrouse.

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the future of the Eurasian continent. Mapping Central Asia identifies the trends, attitudes, and ideas that are key to structuring the Central Asia-South Asia axis in the coming decade. Structured in three parts, the book skillfully guides us through the importance of the historical links between the Indian sub-continent and Central Asia, the regional and global context in which the developing of closer relations between India and Central Asia has presented itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the precise domains of Indo-Central Asian cooperation, and studies three conflict zones that frame Indo-Central Asian relations: the Kashmir question; the situation in Afghanistan; and fear of destabilization in Xinjiang. The international line-up of established scholars convincingly demonstrate the fundamental necessity to define the Indian approach on these issues and provide cutting-edge insights on the tools needed to understand the solutions for the decade to come.