Contents:
Part I-The Past as a link? Reassessing Indo-Central Asian history;
1. Foreign policy and myth-making: great game, heartland, and silk roads / Marlène Laruelle --
2. Bukhara in a revolutionary time and its Indian connections / Suchandana Chatterjee --
3. The opening and closing of direct Indo-Central Asian relations, 1924-1940 / Surendra Gopal --
4. Perceptions and strategies: India's relations with the Central Asian region / Anita Sengupta --
5. The revival of the silk roads topic: a contemporary analysis / Sreemati Ganguli –
Part II-Contextualizing indo-central Asian relations: Hopes, disillusions, and pragmatism;
6. Domestic and international articulations of the Indian involvement in Central Asia / Sébastien Peyrouse --
7. Framing Indo-Central Asian relations, 1990s-2000s / Ajay Patnaik --
8. India's new look at Central Asia policy: a strategic review / Jagannath P. Panda --
9. Indo-Central Asian economic relations / Gulshan Sachdeva –
Part III-The in-between points of tension: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Xigjiang;
10. Managing regional geopolitical uncertainty / Marlène Laruelle, Sébastien Peyrouse --
11. India's policy towards Central Asia: the Pakistan factor / Meena Singh Roy --
12. Restoring India's links with Central Asia across Kashmir: challenges and opportunities / Mushtaq A. Kaw --
13. The resurgence of the Taliban and regional security concerns / Ajay Darshan Behera --
14. The Xinjiang issue: Indian perspectives on Chinese strategies in the far west / K. Warikoo --
15. Conclusion / Marlène Laruelle, Sébastien Peyrouse.