India Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 575-593, December 2023.
Afghanistan has been an important factor in India–Russia ties. There was not much cooperation between them before 1979. However, in later years, the two countries had an intelligence-sharing mechanism along with Afghanistan in order to deal with their common security challenges which had close links with security situation in Afghanistan. In the 1990s, India–Russia supported their mutual fight against terrorism as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan became a common security challenge. In the current context, both countries have established institutional mechanisms to coordinate their Afghanistan policies. Their engagement with Taliban is ‘conditional’ while the two countries would continue to share intelligence and coordinate their respective Afghanistan policies since they still face similar security challenges from Afghanistan.
Category Archives: Accounting History
Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture
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Anti-Dravidian Politics, Anti-Caste Tamil Nationalism and the VCK’s Lost Track: Reading the Politics of Madras
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Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam
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Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslim’s Ecstatic Return
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Trauma and Storytelling in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Book review: Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot, eds., A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print.
Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot, eds., A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023, 568 pp. ISBN: 9789004518759.
Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot, eds., A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023, 568 pp. ISBN: 9789004518759.
Oral-Written-Performed: The Rāmāyaṇa Narratives in Indian Literature and Arts
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Epigraphic Practice and the Making of State Society in Eastern Madhya Pradesh (Circa Fifth–Sixth Centuries ce)
Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 133-153, August 2023.
The essay explores the process of state formation under the Parivråjakas and the Uccakalpðyas in eastern Madhya Pradesh (MP) during circa fifth–sixth centuries ce. A total of 14 epigraphic records inform us about the development of the institutional structures under these two local powers. We delve into the process of transformation of the a»avika-råjya into full-fledged monarchical powers. Besides the internal factors, an attempt has been made to understand the external Gupta and Våkå»aka influence, in relation to the spread of Sanskrit culture, state society and pattern of patronage in eastern MP. Like the well-known Malwa corridor on the western side of MP, the present essay finds the making of another corridor that formed under these two local powers to the eastern side of MP. It, therefore, suggests the existence of another route that connected north India and the Deccan via central India, which catalysed the state formation in the region.
The essay explores the process of state formation under the Parivråjakas and the Uccakalpðyas in eastern Madhya Pradesh (MP) during circa fifth–sixth centuries ce. A total of 14 epigraphic records inform us about the development of the institutional structures under these two local powers. We delve into the process of transformation of the a»avika-råjya into full-fledged monarchical powers. Besides the internal factors, an attempt has been made to understand the external Gupta and Våkå»aka influence, in relation to the spread of Sanskrit culture, state society and pattern of patronage in eastern MP. Like the well-known Malwa corridor on the western side of MP, the present essay finds the making of another corridor that formed under these two local powers to the eastern side of MP. It, therefore, suggests the existence of another route that connected north India and the Deccan via central India, which catalysed the state formation in the region.