India and Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity - Paperback

Pahi Saikia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. She is the author of Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India (2011). Her areas of specialization are international relations; foreign policy between India and neighboring countries; ethnic identity politics, tribes and indigenous people in Northeast India; governance and political development in developing areas; security issues in borderlands Asia; social movements; and conflict prevention. She has published articles in books and in peer-reviewed journals such as India Review on security concerns and risks of conflict in the South Asian subregion, subnationalist insurgency, ethnofederalism and marginalized tribal ethnic minorities in India's northeast.

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Senior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation's Neighbourhood Initiative, Kolkata chapter, India. She specializes in South Asia, forced migration and women in conflict zones. Among her published work are the books Connecting Nations: India and Southeast Asia (co-edited, 2019); State of Being Stateless (co-edited, 2015); Women in Indian Borderlands (co-edited, 2011) and SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (2006). She is a regular contributor to peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines on energy crisis and subregional cooperation in South Asia, religious violence, connectivity and refugee issues in South Asia.