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: casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/rohan-ve...

Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.

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

#India's geopolitical interests in #Bangladesh & #Myanmar are of crucial importance. Join us to hear about their complex, interesting & dynamic relationship. 📆 Wednesday, 5 March 2025 ONLINE 🕒 3pm🇬🇧 8.30pm🇮🇳 9pm🇧🇩 9.30pm🇲🇲 🆓 Registration/Speaker Details: tinyurl.com/bdhzp4bh @paliwalavi.bsky.social

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...

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...

The Ashoka Diplomatic Studies Workshop (ADSW) will be held on Oct 10-11 this year. If you are working on issues related to India’s IR and/or international history, please do consider applying. Deadline: March 10. Just need to share a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV.

This week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features in conversation with @paliwalavi.bsky.social, author of “India’s Near East: A New History” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/content/podc...

"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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“I am occasionally asked on my travels, here and of course on the doorstep around the country, when will the Kremlin threat, this upheaval that we’re experiencing, end? When will things get back to normal? My answer is that they will not. Europe’s future security is on a knife-edge.”

For my newsletter Indialog [indialog.substack.com] I asked scholars: what works on 🇮🇳 & the subcontinent stood out to you in 2024? See what @milanv.bsky.social @paliwalavi.bsky.social @pstaniland.bsky.social, Ananya Sharma, Shivshankar Menon & others recommend: indialog.substack.com/p/2024-highl...

#Myanmar @paliwalavi.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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 🙏🏾 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hindustantimes.com/books/roshan...

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

2024 has been kind. India's Near East: A New History @hurstpublishers.bsky.social came out this summer. Here's a thread on the book in reviews, interviews, ratings, & more. Sam Dalrymple on India's intelligence history in @thespectator1828.bsky.social 1/n www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout...

www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout.... The Spectator reviews Avinash Paliwal (SOAS) new book: 'a gripping tale of espionage that opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

New #GrandTamasha out now: Avinash Paliwal joins me to discuss his new book, “India’s Near East: A New History.” We discuss India’s northeast, relations with Burma and Bangladesh, and the looming China factor. grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

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