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Professor Nirmala Joshi is Research Advisor at the USI. She is a former Head of the Department Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been Director, India-Central Asia Foundation, New Delhi and has done various assignments related to Russia and Central Asian studies. She has edited scores of books on India and Central Asia.
This volume constitutes an overview of the emerging and deepening relations between India and Central Asia in both the political and economic fields. The stability and security of Central Asia is of prime importance for India, which it considers part of its extended neighborhood. Intertwined with Indian concerns is the stability of Afghanistan, where it is vigorously involved in reconstruction activities. So far, India has been active mainly in ...
In the nineteenth century, the great game was played between two major colonial powers of the time—Tsarist Russia and Great Britain. The prize was "The Jewel in the Crown"—India, and the pathway to it ran through Afghanistan. Today, the pathway still runs through Afghanistan but the players are different—the United States of America, Russia and China, with Iran, India, Pakistan on the periphery. ...