Dhananjay Tripathi is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

• 1. Introduction Section I: Theorising Borders: The South Asian Perspective 2. The Chinese Concept of Sovereignty and The India-China Border Dispute 3. The Dialectics of mental borders in South Asia: A literary perspective 4. Theorising Borders: An Islamic Alternative Section II: Borders: Regional Economy and Connectivity 5. India’s Quest for Connectivity with Central and Southeast Asia 6. Sri Lankan Maritime Dynamics: Feasibility of Indo-Sri Lanka Mutually Beneficial Collaboration at the Palk Strait 7. South Asian Trans-border Energy Connectivity and Co-operation: Problems and Prospects 8. The Economic Border: A Lens to Understand Cross Border Trade and Investment (Non)Cooperation in South Asia Section III: Borderlands 9. Paradox of Development: Emerging changes and contestations among Tawang Monpas in Arunachal Pradesh 10. Borderland People and the Rise of the State: A Case Study of Thar Desert 11. Many Lives of a Border: Mentalities, Subjectivities of the Nation-State at the India-Bangladesh Border Haats Section IV: Securitisation and Borders 12. Conflicts, Cooperation and Territoriality: Understanding Borders and Security at Regional Level 13. Heterogeneous Security Complex: A Framework for the Analysis of China-India Water Conflict and South Asia 14. Globalisation, Internet and Nation-States: Theoretical exploration of the new Borders of Globalisation

"Overall the book provides interesting insights. Facts, latest developments, and convincing arguments pitch the book beyond traditional India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-centric (b)ordering perspectives. It re-imagines the border as an innovative tool for establishing possible cooperation and place-making activities for regional benefits." -Biswajit Mohanty, Journal of Borderlands Studies