TY - BOOK AU - Kaw, Mushtaq A. ed. ED - University of Kashmir Centre of Central Asian Studies TI - Central Asia in retrospect & prospect SN - 9789380009322 U1 - 320.820958 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Readworthn KW - Geopolitics -- Asia, Central -- Congresses. KW - Power resources -- Asia, Central -- Congresses. KW - Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991- -- Congresses N1 - Part-I G eo-Politics/G eo-Strategy 1. Geographical Perspectives on Globalization: The View from Central Asia 3 Reuel R. Hanks 2. The State Ideologies in Post-Soviet Central Asia The Ethnic Dimension 11 Valeriy S. Khan 3. Partnership for Peace, Prosperity and Social Progress in Central Asia 29 Kei Karasawa 4. Regionalisjn in Central Asia 35 Zubaidullo Ubaidulloev 5. Russia and Central Asia towards Political and Economic Integration 43 Ajay Patnaik 6. Tajik-Afghan Ethnic Relations and their Impact on the Central Asian Security 55 Elahee Kolaee 7. SCO: A Checkmate in the Great Game on a Grand Chessboard? 63 Gulshan Dietl 8. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Challenges and Prospects 79 Ramakant Dwivedi Part-II Geo-Economics 9. Realism & Middle Powers in Central Asia 91 Gregory Gleason 10. Sizing up Conflicts over Central Asian Resources: From Past to the Present 111 Mushtaq A. Kaw 11. Geopolitics of Central Asia's Oil and Gas Resources Implications for India's Energy Security 133 Talmiz Ahmad 12. An Institutional Analysis of the Financial Sector of the Central Asian Republics 149 Bushra Hamid 13. Eurasian Policy Integration: Theory and Practice 171 Raushan Serik, Beta Syrlbaeva & Gregory Gleason 14. Energy Sector of Kazakhstan: Potentialities and Constraints 183 R.G. Gidadhubli 15. Millennium Development Goals in Kazakhstan Problems and Priorities 191 Bolat L. Tatibekov 16. Development in Central Asia: A Case Study ofKyrgyzstan 203 M. Chanachev 17. Central Asia: Migration and Displacement Implications 209 P.L. Dash 18. Asiatic Russia & Greater Central Asia: Geo-political and Geo-economic Interconnections 227 Vladimir Boyko Part-Ill Historico-Cultural Relations 19. The Soviet Legacy and Ethnic Mapping in the Post-Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia 233 Touraj Atabaki 20. Central Asian Milieu during the 19th-20th Centuries 251 Mansura Haidar 21. Women, Traditions and National Identity 265 Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva 22. Socio-cultural Challenges of Tajikistan in the 20th Century 273 Abdurahim Juraev 23. Labour Migration Process in Post-1991 Central Asia 281 Naira Mkrtchyan 24. Socio-cultural Similarities between Chinese Turkestan and Kashmir 291 Aijaz A Bandey 25. The Rise and Decline of Indian Trading Community in Central Asia 315 Sanjay Kumar Pandey 26. Ethno-religious Movement in Xinjiang and Chinese Development Strategy 327 Debashish Chaudhuri 27. Christianity under the Mongols in Central Asia 337 Mohd Rafiuddin Makhdumi Part-IV Bilateral Ties 28. Kazakhsian ami India: Partners in Regioial Cooperation 355 Kairat Umarov 29. huio-Kazakh Relations in the Historical Perspective 363 Ashok Milkerjee 30. Uzbekistan: The Confident Move along the Chosen Path 371 Saydakamal S. Saydaminov 31. People's Liberation Movements of Kazakhstan and India: A Conceptual Framework 379 Mazhitov Sattar Fazylovich 32. The Present State of Indo-Tajik Relations 389 Umed Nazarov 33. India and Central Asia 397 P. Stobdan 34. Central Asian Policy of Mughal India Diplomacy and Cultural Contacts (1526-1605) 417 Jigar Mtihmnmad 35. Silk Route and Indo-Kyrgyz Ties: Based on the Chinese and Other Sources 427 Indira Musaeva ER -