India | South Asia Journal

Growing economy, shrinking job prospects – India’s prosperity paradox

Unlike its neighbouring countries in South Asia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, where well-established political.......

Dispossession by Attrition: What a Dam in Maharashtra Reveals About India's New Displacement Politics

India has a long, bruising political history with dams. Koyna, Narmada, Polavaram, Sardar Sarovar, each.......

Sanjana Krishnan

Principled to a fault: India’s foreign policy trap

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a famed hugger of his international counterparts. So, when.......

India’s Resilience Is Real, But Its Stress Test Is Not Over

Extreme heat has presented another real-world test. Since May, many parts of India have experienced.......

Huang Dekai

Community Surveillance as a Preventive Strategy Against Child Marriage in Jharkhand: Reflections from the Field

Across India, child protection discourse is gradually shifting from reactive and institution-centric approaches toward preventive,.......

Dr. MD Tabrez Alam

Forty-Two Years, After 1984: Sikh Grievance, And State Response

Every year, the anniversary of Operation Blue Star comes back around, not really as a.......

Ali Mehar

India’s Anti-Poverty Framework: Deconstructing Structural Progress vs. Statistical Illusion

According to revised World Bank macroeconomic datasets—which adjust international poverty boundaries to the 2021 Purchasing.......

Ashraf Rehman

India-Israel Defense Cooperation and the Changing Security Dynamics of South Asia

The growing defense partnership between India and Israel is altering South Asia’s security balance. What.......

Komal Khan and Moonis Ahmad

Current Foreign Policy of India: Compulsions and Constraints

While navigating through compulsions and constraints on way to the current foreign policy of India,.......

Sudhanshu Roy

Hindutva’s Deepening Footprint in India’s Military Structures

India has long projected itself as a secular republic whose constitutional framework guarantees equality, religious.......

Saima Afzal

Vladimir Putin’s 2025 Visit to India: Strategic Implications for Global Diplomacy and Security

The forthcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi in the earlier December.......

Saima Afzal

China Floods Indian Ocean With Spy Ships Just As India Prepares For Massive Missile Test

Four Chinese research vessels, all capable of collecting oceanographic, bathymetric, or acoustic data with military.......

India’s Sudarshan Chakra and the Illusion of Missile Defence in South Asia

Following the resounding defeat to India on technological front, New Delhi plunged into another arm.......

Abdul Basit & Syeda Tahreem Bukhari

From Declaration to Denial: The Silencing of Kashmir’s Voices

Seventy-seven years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, millions of people.......

Saima Afzal

Caste as India’s Hidden Constitution: Power, History, and the Struggle Between Hierarchy and Equality

India’s social history cannot be understood solely through religion. For over three millennia, caste and.......

South Asia Journal

The Rise of Nitin Nabin’s and Power Structure in India

The appointment of Nitin Nabin as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Working President in December.......

Sudhanshu Roy

Impact of U.S. Leftovers Weapons on South Asian Security Landscape

The aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has triggered a cascade of.......

Dr. Mathew Jones

Impact of Propaganda on Regional Security and Counterterrorism Strategies

A conflict of strengthening rhetoric aimed at undermining the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has.......

Umair Khan

Exploring the Gaps in Nuclear Safety and Security

India projects itself internationally as a responsible nuclear power with robust safety and command-and-control systems........

Professor Mathew James

'India Out': In South Asia, India Bears the Burden of Nearness

Bangladesh has once again become the place where South Asia’s unease gathers. The protests are.......