Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE by K.M. de Silva The story of post-colonial Sri Lanka is, in large part, the story of how two groups have interlaced and, in the process, engaged in a 30-year war which saw its... Thiruni Kelegama | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Return of a King by William Dalrymple Imperialism never gives on its own will. The all-season historian, William Dalrymple, echoes this message throughout Return of a King. In comparison to his unwavering research on India, which is... Atul K. Thakur | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck : Harmony, Random House, New York, 2012, 559 pp., Rs 599, ISBN 978-0-385-34708-2 India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck is an important contribution to the literature on the processes that have contributed to imagining India long before the age of the... Kalathmika Natarajan | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Partition of History in Textbooks in Pakistan: Implications of Selective Memory and Forgetting This article seeks to study the post-partition and especially post-1971 experimentation with history writing in Pakistan and focuses on how the revisiting of the partition has led to a reinvention... Ashok K. Behuria , Mohammad Shehzad | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Impact of West Bengal Politics on India–Bangladesh Relations It was expected that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka in September 2011 would transform India–Bangladesh relations. However, this did not happen as India could not sign the Teesta... Anand Kumar | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
India’s Nuclear Limbo and the Fatalism of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1974–1983 India's relationship with the nuclear non-proliferation regime deteriorated sharply after its 1974 underground nuclear test which, according to India, was a peaceful nuclear explosion, but which was not accepted as... Jayita Sarkar | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Energy Strategy for the Indian Navy: Need, Scope and a Roadmap ‘Energy’ is a key enabler of military combat power and it should be considered a strategic resource for the Indian Navy (IN). This article justifies the necessity of ensuring energy... Kapil Narula | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
Can Robust Bilateral Cooperation on Common Rivers between Bangladesh and India Enhance Multilateral Cooperation on Water Security in South Asia? The Himalayan river system, which is made up of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, has a combined drainage area that covers the countries of China, India, Nepal, Bhutan and... Mirza Sadaqat Huda | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
China and IBSA: Possible BRICS Overreach? The India–Brazil–South Africa (IBSA) forum, which was formalised in June 2003 through the adoption of the Brasilia Declaration based on the spirit of South–South solidarity, turns a decade old in... Jagannath P. Panda | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
IBSA at 10: South–South development assistance and the challenge to build international legitimacy in a changing global order This commentary engages with the IBSA model of South–South development assistance. It focuses on the IBSA Trust Fund to demonstrate the growing political relevance of the partnership in development assistance... Marco Antonio Vieira | May 2013 | Strategic Analysis
