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Avinash Paliwal

@paliwalavi.bsky.social
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Reader in IR @soaspolitics | Security | History | South Asia | Author: India's Near East: A New History (Hurst, 2024); My Enemy's Enemy (Hurst, 2017)

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Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
For @casipenn.bsky.social's India in Transition, I spoke to @paliwalavi.bsky.social about India's Near East, why he chose to the 'near east' framing – mixing domestic and international – and how history is 'rhyming' in Bangladesh: casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/rohan-ve...
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.
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Center for the Advanced Study of India @casipenn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to author @paliwalavi.bsky.social (@soaspolitics.bsky.social) about "India’s 'Near East' and How History is Rhyming in Bangladesh" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/rohan-ve...
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CASI Deep Dive: Avinash Paliwal on India’s “Near East” and How History is Rhyming in Bangladesh
Toward the end of India’s Near East: A New History (Hurst, 2024), Avinash Paliwal noted that India’s “over-investment” in Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could lead to trouble, given her growi...
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Shubhda Chaudhary @shubhda.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What a fantastic book! Honored to review Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East Policy for Indian Foreign Affairs Journal on behalf of Middle East Insights. A vital read that challenges historical narratives & rethinks state-building in India’s neighborhood. 📚 #IndiaForeignPolicy
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LSE South Asia Centre @lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#India's geopolitical interests in #Bangladesh & #Myanmar are of crucial importance. Join us to hear about their complex, interesting & dynamic relationship. 📆 Wednesday, 5 March 2025 ONLINE 🕒 3pm🇬🇧 8.30pm🇮🇳 9pm🇧🇩 9.30pm🇲🇲 🆓 Registration/Speaker Details: tinyurl.com/bdhzp4bh @paliwalavi.bsky.social
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Deeply honoured & hugely delighted for this kind & thoughtful review of India’s Near East in @foreignaffairs.com by the amazing Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Thank you! 🙏🏾 @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/indi...
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India’s Near East: A New History
Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi’s domestic and geopolitical strategy for the region.
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Deeply honoured & hugely delighted for this kind & thoughtful review of India’s Near East in @foreignaffairs.com by the amazing Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Thank you! 🙏🏾 @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/indi...
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India’s Near East: A New History
Paliwal uses the term “India’s Near East” to tell a unified story of New Delhi’s domestic and geopolitical strategy for the region.
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Ashoka Diplomatic Studies Workshop (ADSW) will be held on Oct 10-11 this year. If you are working on issues related to India’s IR and/or international history, please do consider applying. Deadline: March 10. Just need to share a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV.
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features in conversation with @paliwalavi.bsky.social, author of “India’s Near East: A New History” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/content/podc...
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"Paliwal provides a meticulous political history of India’s Near East and the factors driving interaction between them." Thank you Rishabh Yadav for this kind review of India's near east in the India Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“I am occasionally asked on my travels, here and of course on the doorstep around the country, when will the Kremlin threat, this upheaval that we’re experiencing, end? When will things get back to normal? My answer is that they will not. Europe’s future security is on a knife-edge.”
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The Locarno Speech by the Foreign Secretary: 9 January 2025
Foreign Secretary David Lammy delivered a speech on the future of the UK's foreign policy.
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Indialog @indialog-substack.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For my newsletter Indialog [indialog.substack.com] I asked scholars: what works on 🇮🇳 & the subcontinent stood out to you in 2024? See what @milanv.bsky.social @paliwalavi.bsky.social @pstaniland.bsky.social, Ananya Sharma, Shivshankar Menon & others recommend: indialog.substack.com/p/2024-highl...
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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#Myanmar @paliwalavi.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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“The Golden Land Ablaze” by Bertil Lintner
In Myanmar today, resistance against the 2021 coup and the military regime, has spread across the entire country, and fighting has engulfed the state, displacing millions and leaving the country in…
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Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Grateful to @paliwalavi.bsky.social for including Spying in South Asia www.cambridge.org/9781108843676 in a list of good reads from 2024 www.linkedin.com/newsletters/... Humbling to be mentioned by Avinash. His ‘India’s Near East’ was in my books of the year: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/indias-...
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Spying in South Asia | Diplomatic and international history
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“Paliwal deserves credit because his account of this history-in-progress is nothing short of an epic equivalent.” What a way to sign off 2024. Thank you @roshankishore.bsky.social for such a generous read of #Indiasneareast 🙏🏾 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.hindustantimes.com/books/roshan...
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
RIP Dr. Singh. Thank you for giving India wings to fly with & firing the aspirations of an entire generation & more.
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
2024 has been kind. India's Near East: A New History @hurstpublishers.bsky.social came out this summer. Here's a thread on the book in reviews, interviews, ratings, & more. Sam Dalrymple on India's intelligence history in @thespectator1828.bsky.social 1/n www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout...
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South Asia in a time of the breaking of nations
Early on Christmas morning in 1962, the Indian diplomat S.S. Banerjee heard a mysterious knock on his door in Dacca, East Pakistan. Standing outside in the darkness was a 14-year-old boy, who beckoned...
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Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
www.spectator.co.uk/article/sout.... The Spectator reviews Avinash Paliwal (SOAS) new book: 'a gripping tale of espionage that opens in 1949, with newly independent India, Pakistan and Burma racked by rivalries' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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South Asia in a time of the breaking of nations
Early on Christmas morning in 1962, the Indian diplomat S.S. Banerjee heard a mysterious knock on his door in Dacca, East Pakistan. Standing outside in the darkness was a 14-year-old boy, who beckoned...
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Milan Vaishnav @milanv.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New #GrandTamasha out now: Avinash Paliwal joins me to discuss his new book, “India’s Near East: A New History.” We discuss India’s northeast, relations with Burma and Bangladesh, and the looming China factor. grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/the...
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Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Hi everyone! I am escaping the deep winter of X for some warm blue skies here.
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