India and Myanmar Borderlands

Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity
Herausgeber: Saikia, Pahi; Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores India-Myanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity. It discusses historical dimensions of cooperation; violence in India-Myanmar borderlands; questions of ethnic ties; political economy of India-Myanmar cooperation; Act East Policy as also examines prospects and challenges of strategic partnership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367364830
• ISBN-10: 0367364832
• Artikelnr.: 58342682

Autorenporträt

Pahi Saikia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. She is the author of Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India (2011). Her areas of specialization are international relations; foreign policy between India and neighboring countries; ethnic identity politics, tribes and indigenous people in Northeast India; governance and political development in developing areas; security issues in borderlands Asia; social movements; and conflict prevention. She has published articles in books and in peer-reviewed journals such as India Review on security concerns and risks of conflict in the South Asian subregion, subnationalist insurgency, ethnofederalism and marginalized tribal ethnic minorities in India's northeast. Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Senior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation's Neighbourhood Initiative, Kolkata chapter, India. She specializes in South Asia, forced migration and women in conflict zones. Among her published work are the books Connecting Nations: India and Southeast Asia (co-edited, 2019); State of Being Stateless (co-edited, 2015); Women in Indian Borderlands (co-edited, 2011) and SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (2006). She is a regular contributor to peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines on energy crisis and subregional cooperation in South Asia, religious violence, connectivity and refugee issues in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Rakhahari Chatterji 1. Conceptualizing India and Myanmar
Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity Pahi Saikia and Anasua
Basu Ray Chaudhury Part I: India-Myanmar Relations: Ethnicity and Security
Dimensions 2. State-Territoriality, Circulation of Socio-Cultural Relations
and Resistance in India-Myanmar Borderlands Pahi Saikia, Ingudam
Yaipharemba and Apurba K. Baruah 3. Crisis in the Rakhine State of Myanmar:
Bilateral Relations with India in Perspective Mihir Bhonsale 4. Reality on
the Indo-Myanmar Border: Field Observations from Longwa and Hmaungbuchhuah
on Issues of Ethnicity, Connectivity and Security Rajeev Bhattacharyya 5.
Territoriality, Ethnic Contestation and Insurgency in the Indo-Myanmar
Borderland Ngamjahao Kipgen Part II: Proximity to Connectivity:
India-Myanmar in Perspective 6. India-Myanmar Relations: A Perspective from
the Border Alana Golmei 7. India-Myanmar Borderland: Pressing Concerns in
Public Health Hazards Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Sreeparna Banerjee 8.
Employing Proximity: Boosting Bilateral Ties between India and Myanmar
Pratnashree Basu Part III: Changing Political Landscape and India-Myanmar
Cooperation 9. Political Economy of Sub-Regional Cooperation: 'Interests'
in Reframing the Peripheries of India and Myanmar Rakhee Bhattacharya 10.
Act East Policy and the Importance of Myanmar and Northeast India Region
Nehginpao Kipgen 11. India-Myanmar Relations: Political Transition and
Shared Borderlands K. Yhome