01861nam a22002297a 4500 20260728112320.0 260728b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143467700 : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. : 4794/23, 1st Floor, 7, Ansari Road, New Delhi : TB1153 327.54 PAL Paliwal, Avinash. India's near east : A new history. / Avinash Paliwal. Gurugram : Penguin , 2024. xi,463p. : 24cm. 559 Celebrated as a theatre of geo-economic connectivity typified by the ‘Act East’ policy, India’s near east is key not only to its great-power rivalry with China, which first boiled over in the 1962 war, but to the idea(s) of India itself. It is also one of the most intricately partitioned lands anywhere on Earth. Rent by communal and class violence, the region has birthed extreme forms of religious and ethnic nationalisms and communist movements. The Indian state’s survival instinct and pursuit of regional hegemony have only accentuated such extremes. This book scripts a new history of India’s eastward-looking diplomacy and statecraft. Narrated against the backdrop of separatist resistance within India’s own northeastern states, as well as rivalry with Beijing and Islamabad in Myanmar and Bangladesh, it offers a simple but compelling argument. The aspirations of ‘Act East’ mask an uncomfortable truth: India privileges political stability over economic opportunity in this region. In his chronicle of a state’s struggle to overcome war, displacement and interventionism, Avinash Paliwal lays bare the limits of independent India’s influence in its near east. India Foreign Relation Social Science Avinash Paliwal. BOOK 70552 70552 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-07-28 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 559.00 0 327.54 PAL 31613 2026-07-28 11:23:37 2026-07-28 BOOK