Author Amitav Ghosh, who has extensively explored the history of the subcontinent, points out that there is still Eurocentrism in the study of the subject.
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Company builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, cheaper to produce. ICEYE will develop & launch micro-satellites, hand them over to India, which will have full control & sovereignty.
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
The Gorkhas had successfully thwarted a military incursion by the EI Co. in 1767. Apart from the military prowess of the Gorkhas, a factor which the EI Co had in mind was the risk reward calculus . There was no particular strategic or economic gain to be had in annexing Nepal, that would have justified the effort & expense . Punjab, despite the risks, had to be annexed to enable the EI CO. to control access from the Hindukush Mountains, as an important part of the Great Game.
Are we to now conclude that like Tibet, China will someday in future demand that Nepal is part of its Middle Kingdom, as Nepali Gorkhas surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in 1792? And India should stop interfering in Nepal and watch Nepal becoming what Bhutan is to India? In this manner, as Pakistan is already made a colony by China, we have China from West to North to East of India. Sri lanka, Bangla Desh and Myanmar are already under the strong Chinese influence. And thanks to upcoming RECP, these countries will draw economically very close to China. Thus, very soon, India will be fully encircled by China from all sides!!
That’s what China’s intentions are. That’s what liberal thinkers, who are ready to go ga ga over China’s successes but become numb when someone discusses its excesses, would like.
It is possible that each sovereign country has some smart people working for it, especially in the Foreign Office. Advisors like Shri Gowher Rizvi, who astutely guide PM Sheikh Hasina how to keep the Elephant and the Dragon in good humour, while economic growth accelerates to 8%. Let us not be so dismissive of our smaller neighbours, think they are just waiting to roll over and submit to Chinese hegemony. They are doing their sums, watching how tectonic plates are moving beneath the Asian continent.
We were never colonised by the British is something Nepalis unfailingly point out to Indians when we get into a Monroe Doctrine frame of mind.
The Gorkhas had successfully thwarted a military incursion by the EI Co. in 1767. Apart from the military prowess of the Gorkhas, a factor which the EI Co had in mind was the risk reward calculus . There was no particular strategic or economic gain to be had in annexing Nepal, that would have justified the effort & expense . Punjab, despite the risks, had to be annexed to enable the EI CO. to control access from the Hindukush Mountains, as an important part of the Great Game.
Are we to now conclude that like Tibet, China will someday in future demand that Nepal is part of its Middle Kingdom, as Nepali Gorkhas surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in 1792? And India should stop interfering in Nepal and watch Nepal becoming what Bhutan is to India? In this manner, as Pakistan is already made a colony by China, we have China from West to North to East of India. Sri lanka, Bangla Desh and Myanmar are already under the strong Chinese influence. And thanks to upcoming RECP, these countries will draw economically very close to China. Thus, very soon, India will be fully encircled by China from all sides!!
That’s what China’s intentions are. That’s what liberal thinkers, who are ready to go ga ga over China’s successes but become numb when someone discusses its excesses, would like.
It is possible that each sovereign country has some smart people working for it, especially in the Foreign Office. Advisors like Shri Gowher Rizvi, who astutely guide PM Sheikh Hasina how to keep the Elephant and the Dragon in good humour, while economic growth accelerates to 8%. Let us not be so dismissive of our smaller neighbours, think they are just waiting to roll over and submit to Chinese hegemony. They are doing their sums, watching how tectonic plates are moving beneath the Asian continent.
We were never colonised by the British is something Nepalis unfailingly point out to Indians when we get into a Monroe Doctrine frame of mind.