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Gulbin Sultana

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Dr Gulbin Sultana is an Associate Fellow with the South Asia Centre in the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her areas of research in the institute include Sri Lanka and the Maldives. She has written extensively on the politico-economic and foreign policy developments of these two countries. Additionally, Dr Sultana takes interest in the study of small island states, particularly in the Indian Ocean Region and also issues pertaining to maritime security.

Dr Sultana is the author of the Monograph titled “Assertion of Religion in Sri Lankan Politics: A Critical Analysis”, published in 2025. She is also the co-editor of the book titled “Think 20@G20: Towards a Resilient South Asia”, published by Pentagon Press in 2024.

She has done her MPhil on “India’s Naval Support to Sri Lanka and the Maldives” from the South Asian Studies Division of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was awarded a PhD degree too by the same university. Her doctoral thesis was on “Sri Lanka’s Maritime Security: A Study of Military and Non-military Responses”. Before joining MP-IDSA, she worked with the National Maritime Foundation and the United Service Institution of India in New Delhi.

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