About The Book

Introduction: Pivotal Moments in the History of India

and Russia: Some Thoughts

ALEXANDER A. STOLYAROV

1. An Insight into the India-ASEAN Agricultural Trade: An Analysis with respect to AIFTA

2. ‘Pearls’ vs. ‘Diamonds’: Chinese Maneuverings in the Indian Ocean Region vis-à-vis Securing the Indian Ocean’s Maritime Order

3. Diaspora and Migration Policies in Asia: Challenges of Integration and Identity Preservation

4. The Genetic History of the Population of India

5. Tourism and Its Prospects for South Asia with special reference to India and Bhutan and the Role of the Bhutan-India Friendship Association (BIFA)

6. Impact of Globalisation on the Consumption Behaviour of People

7. The Role of Religion in Shaping Politics with special reference to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s Political Thought

8. Ethno-Medicinal Herbs: An Intangible Cultural Component of Rural Folks in Assam

9. Translation of Poetic Text: The Issue of Variability

10. Gendered Echoes of the Empire: Marguerite Duras and French Female Experience in Indochina

11. Neo-liberal Forces and Mechanisms of Dispossession: A Case Study of the Dibang Multi-purpose Project, Arunachal Pradesh

12. Challenges of Sustainable Development for Victim Families of Human-Elephant Conflict: A Case Study in Chirang District, Assam, India

13. Impact of War on Gender and Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

14. India and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue: India’s Prospects and Limitations

15. Tourism in Protected Areas and Community Participation: A Sociological Study of the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam

16. A Basic Report on the Japanese School Education System

17. Sustainable Urbanisation and Urban Development: Reviewing the State of Indian Cities through Sustainable Development Goals

18. Colonial Shadows: Impact of British Rule on Transgender Identity in India

19. Becoming and Unbecoming Axomiya Muslim: Exploring Narratives and Appropriating Identities

20. Economic Significance of the Strait of Malacca

21. Similarities among Major Three South East Asian Languages: Chinese-Japanese-Korean

22. Russia’s Strategic Engagement in Central Asia: Prospects and Challenges

23. Bollywood as Soft Power in Indian Foreign Policy: Prospects and Contradictions

24. In the Name of Indigeneity: Cultural and Identity- based Conflicts in Manipur

About Author

Dr. Anisha Bordoloi is currently the Head of the Department of History,
Girijananda Chowdhury University, Assam. She specializes in Modern
Indian History and her areas of research interest cover the domains of global
economic history; global plantation history; history of migration; family
history; history of criminality, law and violence and the history of Northeast
India. Within the span of a five-year long research career, she has published
articles under Routledge, Assam Publication Board and the renowned
journals Social Scientist and Social Change and Development. She has
contributed to the research of the volume titled Political History of Assam
(1947-1971), Volume I which was published under the aegis of the
Government of Assam in 2024. Her upcoming publications include articles
in edited volumes under Routledge and Springer Nature, Singapore.

Dr. Bhaswati Sarmah is currently working as an Assistant Professor and
Head of the Department of Political Science, Girijananda Chowdhury
University, Guwahati, Assam. She has completed her graduation and post
graduation from Cotton College (presently Cotton University) and M.Phil
and PhD from Sikkim University, Gangtok. Her areas of interests include
international relations, India’s foreign policy, soft power, diaspora and indian
political thought. She has published research articles in different journals
and books. She served as a reviewer of Sage Journal of Human Values. Her
upcoming publications include article in an edited volume under
Bloomsbury Academic, Singapore.

Dr. Bondita Baruah is Assistant Professor of English literature at the
Department of English and Foreign Languages in Girijanada Chowdhury
University, Guwahati, Assam. Her research focuses on Post-Colonial
literature, Resistance Literature, Environmental Humanities, Gender,
Liminal Spaces and Marginalities, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, and
Indigeneity. Her academic writings have appeared in reputed journals and
books, including Routledge. She has previous teaching experience of almost
seven years in Dispur College. As a freelance writer working on
humanitarian and environmental/climatic issues, her works have appeared
in The New York Times, The Third Pole, Mongabay, The Wire, Scottish
Centre for Global History (University of Dundee), Assam Tribune, Stories
Asia, among others. As a translator she has worked for regional writers
and international agencies. Her translated poem “Champawati” is published
in Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam (Zubaan, 2024). Her translated

booklet of poems Her Spoken Words (2023) and co-edited handbook
Building Resilient Futures: Gender and Climate Change in North East
India (2025) published by North East Network cover issues of violence
and gendered vulnerabilities in the North East.