scholarly journals Balance of Power in South Asia: Concerning Russian Role

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Uroosa Ishfaq ◽  
Kashif Ashfaq ◽  
Zainab Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Dominant Actor ◽  
Political Settlement

Russia's engagement in South Asia has been shaped by its strategic interests: its quest for warm water, the routes of its gas pipeline, and its policy for curtailing U.S. hegemony. It has always been a dominant actor of South Asian Politics. The international dynamics have changed Russian strategies at different intervals. Initially, it was inclined towards India; however, in the current scenario, it has recognized the significance of Pakistan for a peaceful political settlement in Afghanistan and linking the Euro Asian union with South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and beyond. The paper highlights the changes in Russian policies towards South Asia and its due role in the balance of power between Pakistan and India.Russian strategic interest in South Asia and its relationship with India and Pakistan are the sole factors responsible for Russian involvement in BOP between Pakistan and India.

scholarly journals The shift from indirect to direct trade between China and South Asia, 1684–1740

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ryan Holroyd
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Trading System ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Direct Trade

Abstract This article will examine the structural evolution of China’s maritime trade with South Asia from 1684, the year in which the Qing dynasty legalized private commercial voyages, until about 1740. It concludes that, initially, most of the Chinese goods that entered the Indian Ocean destined for South Asian markets were first exported by Chinese merchants to Southeast Asian ports, and were then relayed from there to the Indian Ocean. The two most important hubs in this indirect trading system were Ayutthaya and Johor. However, between about 1715 and 1725, political changes in these two centres, combined with a short-lived Qing ban on Southeast Asian trade, encouraged South Asian-based merchants to increase the number of direct voyages they made to China each year. The result was an expansion of direct trade between South Asia and China at the expense of the indirect routes.

scholarly journals Special Issue Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: from South Asia to the Indian Ocean

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-351
Author(s):  
Justin Jones ◽  
Ali Usman Qasmi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Political Science ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: from South Asia to the Indian Ocean, edited by Dr Justin Jones of Oxford University and Dr Ali Usman Qasmi of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, is our fifth special issue in recent years. Its articles, by scholars from a range of disciplines - history, religious studies, anthropology, political science - explore the historical and contemporary dynamics of various South Asian Shi’i communities living in, and moving between, places that border the Indian Ocean. Indeed, taken en masse, they demonstrate the enduring vitality of these communities, whose members have responded in a range of ways to the opportunities and challenges of the complex religious, social and political context of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Australianama

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Indian Ocean World

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people. Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.

Spatial and Temporal Continuities of Merchant Networks in South Asia and the Indian Ocean (1500-2000)

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gita Dharampal-Frick ◽  
Bhaswati Bhattacharya ◽  
Jos Gommans
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The People ◽  
Merchant Networks ◽  
The Indian Ocean

AbstractWe believe ourselves to be the most astute men that one can encounter, and the people here surpass us in everything. And there are Moorish merchants worth 400,000 to 500,000 ducats. And they can do better calculations by memory than we can do with the pen. And they mock us, and it seems to me that they are superior to us in countless things, save with sword in hand, which they cannot resist.

A Secret People of South Asia. The Origins, Evolution and Role of the Luso-Indian Goan Community from the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Itinerario ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Indian Ocean Region ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Until fairly recently, histories of European imperial expansion in the Indian Ocean region have been written largely in terms of the endeavours of Europeans in creating and controlling empire. Only in the last couple of decades has recognition been given slowly to the role of the indigenous economic and political compradors, both large and small, who were vital to the evolution and sustenance of European colonial empires.

scholarly journals Systematic Errors in South Asian Monsoon Simulation: Importance of Equatorial Indian Ocean Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (20) ◽  
pp. 8159-8178 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Annamalai ◽  
Bunmei Taguchi ◽  
Julian P. McCreary ◽  
Motoki Nagura ◽  
Toru Miyama
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Equatorial Indian Ocean ◽  
Coupled Processes ◽  
Cmip5 Models ◽  
Model Errors ◽  
Bjerknes Feedback ◽  
Sst Bias

Abstract Forecasting monsoon rainfall using dynamical climate models has met with little success, partly due to models’ inability to represent the monsoon climatological state accurately. In this article the nature and dynamical causes of their biases are investigated. The approach is to analyze errors in multimodel-mean climatological fields determined from CMIP5, and to carry out sensitivity experiments using a coupled model [the Coupled Model for the Earth Simulator (CFES)] that does represent the monsoon realistically. Precipitation errors in the CMIP5 models persist throughout the annual cycle, with positive (negative) errors occurring over the near-equatorial western Indian Ocean (South Asia). Model errors indicate that an easterly wind stress bias Δτ along the equator begins during April–May and peaks during November; the severity of the Δτ is that the Wyrtki jets, eastward-flowing equatorial currents during the intermonsoon seasons (April–May and October–November), are almost eliminated. An erroneous east–west SST gradient (warm west and cold east) develops in June. The structure of the model errors indicates that they arise from Bjerknes feedback in the equatorial Indian Ocean (EIO). Vertically integrated moisture and moist static energy budgets confirm that warm SST bias in the western EIO anchors moist processes that cause the positive precipitation bias there. In CFES sensitivity experiments in which Δτ or warm SST bias over the western EIO is artificially introduced, errors in the EIO are similar to those in the CMIP5 models; moreover, precipitation over South Asia is reduced. An overall implication of these results is that South Asian rainfall errors in CMIP5 models are linked to errors of coupled processes in the western EIO, and in coupled models correct representation of EIO coupled processes (Bjerknes feedback) is a necessary condition for realistic monsoon simulation.

scholarly journals Os africanos escolhem o que vão levar:

2018 ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Thiago De Araujo Folador
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Resenha do livro: MACHADO, Pedro. Ocean of trade: South Asian merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1850 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 315 p.

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