India and China in Southeast Asia

This book focuses on the increasing contest and limited cooperation between India and China in Southeast Asia, which is beyond their shared border. This sort of engagement shows how their bilateral tensions are also playing out in the extraterritorial region where the two countries are involved because of history, economics, and security reasons. Chapters in this book look at the various facets of their engagements in the Southeast Asia. It contains both thematic and bilateral issues. Some of the chapters such as on infrastructure, defence etc takes stock of India-China engagements in Southeast Asia, while others mainly deal with how the two Asian powers interact with the individual countries of the region. The readers will benefit from this comprehensive volume in following ways: (a) They will come to know how and why Southeast Asia is an important region for India and China; (b) They will get an idea of how India and China are trying to engage with the Southeast Asia as a regionand at the bilateral level; (c) The readers will understand the role of the Diasporas in linking their respective country of origin with the States they live in ; and ( d) the readers will get aware of how the Asian powers are contesting against each other in the Southeast Asia region for their benefits

Amit Ranjan Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His latest books include Migration, Memories and the “Unfinished” Partition (Routledge, London, 2024), The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2023) with Victor Kattan, Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia (Routledge, London, 2023) with Ian Talbot, and Contested Waters: India’s Transboundary River Water Disputes in South Asia (Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2020). He is also the author of India Bangladesh Border Disputes: History and Post-LBA Dynamics (Springer, Singapore, 2018). Dr Ranjan has edited India in South Asia Challenges and Management (Springer, Singapore, 2019), Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies (Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2019) and Water Issues in Himalayan South Asia: Internal Challenges, Disputes and Transboundary Tensions (Singapore,2019).

His papers, review essays and book reviews have been widely published in journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Economic & Political Weekly, India Review, Indian Journal of Public Administration, India Quarterly, Journal of Migration Affairs, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal of Asian  and African Studies, Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Social Change, Social Identities, Studies in Indian Politics, Society and Culture in South Asia, South Asia Research, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Water History and World Water Policy. 

Diotima Chattoraj a Research Fellow at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University, Singapore. She completed her PhD at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She was a former Researcher at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS, in collaboration with NTU and SMU. Prior to that, she was based as a Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) in Universiti Brunei Darussalam and was involved in several research projects on Asian migration. Her research focuses on Asian migration, mobility, development, ethnicity, international relations, and boundary-making. She has authored over 25 journal articles, 5 books, 9 book chapters, and 9 book reviews in in leading journals in migration and development namely, Mobilities, South Asia Research, India Quarterly, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies and many more. She is the Deputy Editor of South Asia Research (Sage) and serves as a peer reviewer for several refereed journals. . In addition, she has established collaborations with scholars across the globe and has presented her works at multiple international conferences as a keynote and invited speaker.          

AKM Ahsan Ullah is Associate Professor of Geography, Environment and Development at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He has an extensive research portfolio and has worked with prestigious institutions such as the City University of Hong Kong, IPH at the University of Ottawa, McMaster University, Saint Mary's University, Dalhousie University in Canada, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Osnabruck University, Germany, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. His research areas include migration and mobilities, intercultural encounters and development, with a geographic focus on the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Middle East, and theoretical focus on globalization and neoliberalism, development and human rights, transnationalism, gender, intersectionality and the everyday life.  He has published more than 15 books, 60 articles in refereed journals and 40 book chapters.