China and India in Central Asia

1. Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region
Marlène Laruelle, Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, Bayram Balci

Part I. Negotiating Projections of Power in Central Asia

2. Russia Facing China and India in Central Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Hesitations
MarlÈne Laruelle

3. Central Asia-China Relations and Their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy
Jean-Pierre Cabestan

4. An Elephant in a China Shop? India’s Look North to Central Asia … Seeing Only China
Emilian Kavalski

5. Afghanistan and Regional Strategy: The India Factor
Meena Singh Roy

6. Afghan Factor in Reviving the Sino-Pak Axis
Swaran Singh

Part II. India and China in Central Asia, between Cooperation, Parallelism, and Competition

7. India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring Their Bilateral Relations
Jean-FranÇois Huchet

8. India-China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy’s Analysis of Great Powers
Basudeb Chaudhuri, Manpreet Sethi

9. Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia
Zhao Huasheng

Part III. Chinese and Indian Economic Implementations from the Caspian Basin to Afghanistan

10. Scramble for Caspian Energy: Can Big Power Competition Sidestep China and India?
P. L. Dash

11. Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in Post-Soviet Central Asia
SÉbastien Peyrouse

12. The Reconstruction in Afghanistan: The Indian and Chinese Contribution
Gulshan Sachdeva

Part IV. Revisited Historical Backgrounds, Disputed Religious Modernities

13. From the Oxus to the Indus: Looking Back at India-Central Asia Connections in the Early Modern Age
Laurent Gayer

14. Uyghur Islam: Caught between Foreign Influences and Domestic Constraints
Rémi Castets

15. The Jama’at al Tabligh in Central Asia—a Mediator in the Recreation of Islamic Relations with the Indian Subcontinent
Bayram Balci

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Science