15. Gurnah, Admiring Silence, pp. 67, 134.
16. Gurnah, Desertion, pp. 110, 225.
17. Sunil Gangopadhyay, Those Days, trans. Aruna Chakravarti (New York: Penguin, 1981, 1997), p. 7.
18. Richard M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 60, 167–68.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBERT D. KAPLAN is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He was recently the Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. His twelve previous books include Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary, and Warrior Politics. He is a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.
Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface: The Rimland of Eurasia
PART I
1. China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally
PART II
2. Oman Is Everywhere
3. Curzon’s Frontiers
4. “Lands of India”
5. Baluchistan and Sindh
6. The Troubled Rise of Gujarat
7. The View from Delhi
8. Bangladesh: The Existential Challenge
9. Kolkata: The Next Global City
10. Of Strategy and Beauty
11. Sri Lanka: The New Geopolitics
12. Burma: Where India and China Collide
13. Indonesia’s Tropical Islam
14. The Heart of Maritime Asia
PART III
15. China’s Two-Ocean Strategy?
16. Unity and Anarchy
17. Zanzibar: The Last Frontier
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
About the Author
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