Avinash Paliwal

For @casipenn.bsky.social's India in Transition, I spoke to @paliwalavi.bsky.social about India's Near East, why he chose to the 'near east' framing – mixing domestic and international – and how history is 'rhyming' in Bangladesh:

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In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to author @paliwalavi.bsky.social (@soaspolitics.bsky.social) about "India’s 'Near East' and How History is Rhyming in Bangladesh" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/rohan-ve...

What a fantastic book!

Honored to review Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East Policy for Indian Foreign Affairs Journal on behalf of Middle East Insights. A vital read that challenges historical narratives & rethinks state-building in India’s neighborhood. 📚 #IndiaForeignPolicy

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India’s Near East: A New History Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi’s domestic and geopolitical strategy for the region.

Deeply honoured & hugely delighted for this kind & thoughtful review of India’s Near East in @foreignaffairs.com by the amazing Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Thank you! 🙏🏾

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India’s Near East: A New History Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi’s domestic and geopolitical strategy for the region.

Deeply honoured & hugely delighted for this kind & thoughtful review of India’s Near East in @foreignaffairs.com by the amazing Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Thank you! 🙏🏾

@michaeldwyer.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/indi...

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"Paliwal provides a meticulous political history of India’s Near East and the factors driving interaction between them."

Thank you Rishabh Yadav for this kind review of India's near east in the India Quarterly.
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“The Golden Land Ablaze” by Bertil Lintner In Myanmar today, resistance against the 2021 coup and the military regime, has spread across the entire country, and fighting has engulfed the state, displacing millions and leaving the country in…

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Grateful to @paliwalavi.bsky.social for including Spying in South Asia www.cambridge.org/9781108843676 in a list of good reads from 2024 www.linkedin.com/newsletters/... Humbling to be mentioned by Avinash. His ‘India’s Near East’ was in my books of the year: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/indias-...

“Paliwal deserves credit because his account of this history-in-progress is nothing short of an epic equivalent.”

What a way to sign off 2024. Thank you @roshankishore.bsky.social
for such a generous read of #Indiasneareast 🙏🏾

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RIP Dr. Singh.

Thank you for giving India wings to fly with & firing the aspirations of an entire generation & more.

YouTube video by THE GEOSTRATA India's Near East - Statecraft, Diplomacy, and Beyond | GeoInterview with Avinash Paliwal

Interviewed by Digvijay Singh for Geostrata 15/n

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YouTube video by Force Magazine Avinash Paliwal on his book India's Near East: A New History and limits to Act East

Interview for Force India by Ghazala Wahab 14/n
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YouTube video by ThePrint Sheikh Hasina's stay in Delhi won't be a 'deal-breaker' between India & Bangladesh: Avinash Paliwal

Interviewed for Print India by Pia Krishnankutty 13/n
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Interviewed by Bashir Ali Abbas and Sukanya Sharma for India's World magazine. 12/n

Rheea Saggar unpacks the empirical and conceptual value of the book for International Affairs. 11/n

Review – India’s Near East Paliwal sheds much needed light on seven decades of India's policies towards its near east, but overlooks the role of communal policies and global power shifts.

Prashant Singh reviews the book for E-IR 10/n
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Avinash Paliwal on Why India’s Approach Toward Its Near East is a Cautionary Tale “No bridge, road, port, or rail line can connect a people divided by communalism or other ethnic fissures… One cannot build strategic connectivity while fostering social divisions.”

Interviewed by Sudha Ramachandran for @thediplomat.com 9/n
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YouTube video by Carnegie Endowment The Past, Present, and Future of India’s Near East

Interviewed by @milanv.bsky.social for The Grand Tamasha. 8/n

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An eastern perspective Keeping the ‘colonial’ nature of Paliwal’s framework aside, his work is noteworthy on account of the information on the concerns of the Indian leadership regarding Burma and East Pakistan

Vivek Katju on why the book is a must-read in Telegraph India. 7/n

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Review of Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East — A New History: Prisoners of the past Avinash Paliwal on how and why India has failed to connect with its eastern neighbours. Review of Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East — A New History.

Ved Shinde on India being a prisoner of its past in Bangladesh in @thehindu.com 6/n

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The book maintains its top-10 non-fiction bestsellers streak in India from July-October 2024. 5/n

“India’s Near East: A New History” by Avinash Paliwal India’s western frontier with Pakistan may generate more headlines but India’s eastern border flanking both Myanmar and Bangladesh is arguably more complex. Both neighbors have long been unstable a…

Maximillian Morch on the importance of India's near east in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social 4/n
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Why New Delhi backed Sheikh Hasina – and botched its Bangladesh policy With the collapse of India-backed authoritarianism in Bangladesh – and Myanmar too – ‘India’s Near East: A New History’ reads like a testament to the failure of New Delhi’s policy on its eastern flank

Cyrus Naji on India's botched Bangladesh policy in @himalmag.bsky.social 3/n

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