India-Afghanistan

From Common Inheritance to Contested Histories
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-03003-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book is a searing history of Indo-Afghan relations. It looks at how Afghanistan, once the heartland of India, has now been reduced to a troubled cousin in the contemporary era. Drawing on archival records, as well as ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Persian literature, the book traces the history of Afghanistan from ancient times up to the recent Taliban takeover of the country in 2020. It presents an analytical history of race, culture, and belonging in a world shaken and transformed by colonization. The author provides a new interpretation of the region and discusses South Asia’s courteous racial etiquette.

An indispensable read, the book will be useful for students and researchers of history, Middle East and Central Asian studies, international relations, politics, development studies, and Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rath, Saroj Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 Explaining Ancient Connection

2 The Contested Histories: Journeying Through the Ages

3 Special Symmetry in the Modern Era

4 Testing Time for Perpetual Friendship

5 The Dimensions of Choices in Bilateral Relations

6 Navigating the Chessboard in the 21st Century

7 From Grandeur and Glory to an Oscillating Bond

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Saroj Kumar Rath has written extensively on the history of Afghanistan’s responses to the world. His prize-winning history Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks (2014) has been used as course material at leading universities in Europe, Asia, and America. A specialist in South Asia’s security history, he teaches at the University of Delhi.