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India’s Strategic Interests in Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Years: Expanding Vistas of Partnership

Raj Kumar Kothari Professor, Department of Political Science, Vidyasagar University Medinipur, West Bengal 721102, India , Raj Kumar Kothari

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International Journal of Political Science 4(1):p 23-32, January - June 2018. | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpos.2454.9371.4118.3

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 The five Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – became independent in the early 1990s, more precisely after the fall of the Soviet Union. The region has been endowed with abundant availability of natural mineral resources like uranium ore, hydrocarbon deposits, vast hydropower potential etc. that made the region of great significance and prime attention of international powers. Central Asia therefore emerged as a pivot for intra and intercontinental trade and economic linkages. India took keen interests in the region. New Delhi’s major concerns with the CARs (Central Asian Republics) include energy security, trade, investment, infrastructure development, fight against Islamic fundamentalism and so on. It is in this backdrop, India’s perceptions and policies towards Central Asia has been of immense significance, which has been the subject matter of this paper. The paper has been prepared with the application of historical and analytical methods. 

Keywords: Central Asia; India; Strategic; Post-Soviet; Islam. 

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