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Although China has been an important external actor in South Asia since the middle of the last century, it is only in the 21st century that China became a decisive influence on the regions evolution. The emergence of China as the worlds second largest economy had naturally made it the largest trading partner for most of the South Asian countries. Chinas rapid military modernisation, facilitated by its expansive economic growth, had a major impact on the regions security politics. Chinas political and diplomatic weight is now visible sharply not only in the economic, foreign and security policies of the South Asian nations but also in their domestic politics.

Meanwhile, India has emerged, albeit at a slower pace than China, as a major power over the last two decades. Like Beijing, New Delhis geopolitical aspirations too have steadily risen during that period. This has set the stage for growing strategic friction between the India and China. The friction has enveloped many regional and global domains, but its greatest expression has been in the shared South Asian neighbourhood. India is determined to sustain its traditional primacy in the region and China is determined to consolidate its growing influence in South Asia. The sharpening friction has also begun to intersect with the growing great power tensions, especially between the United States and China. Many elements of these new dynamic have drawn academic engagement, in particular from the major power perspectives. However, the voices of the smaller South Asian nations have not been sufficiently heard or analysed. This volume seeks to address that major gap in the current discourse on the Indian subcontinent and its changing role in great power politics.

This volume brings multiple regional voices to assess how the various South Asian nations are dealing with the growing rivalry between India and China. Many of the chapters in this volume were initially published as shorter essays by the Institute of South Asian Studies in its South Asia Discussion Papers series in 2020. Those essays have been updated and expanded in this volume. Additional contributions have also been commissioned to enrich the special perspectives that this volume presents.

Contents:

Preface
Introduction (C Raja Mohan and Hernaikh Singh)
India and China in Afghanistan: A Renewed Theatre of Contestation (Shanthie Mariet DSouza)
Bangladeshs Balancing of China and India: Navigating Between Scylla and Charybdis (Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury)
The Egg Between the Two Rocks: How Bhutan has Engaged India and China in Very Different Ways (Suhasini Haidar)
Drivers of the Maldives Foreign Policy on India and China (Athaulla A Rasheed)
India-China Rivalry in Nepal (Pramod Jaiswal)
China and Pakistan: From Tactical Alliance to Strategic and Economic Interdependence (Touqir Hussain)
Competing for Influence: China and India in Post-COVID-19 Sri Lanka (Chulanee Attanayake)
China: Exploring Certainties in Uncertain Sino-Indian Relations (Zheng Haiqi)
India Meets China in Its Periphery (S D Muni)
About the Authors
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Readership: Academics, researchers, policymakers, private sector/industry.
Key Features:

Current status of India-China rivalry from the viewpoint of the smaller South Asian states
Perspectives from scholars and ex-bureaucrats strongly associated with India and China
Insights into the future of India-China rivalry

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Coping with China-India Rivalry

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