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Within Indian academia, there is much to develop regarding knowledge about Myanmar. India's two-track engagement with Myanmar commenced in 1991 and until 2021, resulted in 30 successful years of bilateral engagement. On 1st February 2021, that changed with Senior General Ming Aung Hlaing's coup d'état and the ensuing violence which has already claimed over 700 lives. In such tragic circumstances, 'business as usual` is no longer a viable foreign policy option. With this backdrop, Irrawaddy Imperatives: Reviewing India's Myanmar Strategy, though written well before the coup, provides a fresh and original perspective to India's relationship with Myanmar. In reviewing India's Myanmar strategy, the book uses three principal approaches; the borderland studies approach, the geographic realism approach, and the third concurrent approach - the centrality of the Northeast and its people as the principal stakeholders in India-Myanmar relations. The book attempts to create a policy for India towards Myanmar, arguing that a strong and developed Myanmar is the best bet for India and for the development of India's Northeast. For this, Indian businesses have to invest in Myanmar, especially along the India-Myanmar border.

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Colonel Jaideep Chanda is a serving officer of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, with operational experience in high altitude, jungle and mountain warfare; counter insurgency and terrorism; and on the Line of Control. He is a veteran of the Kargil War where he led the Commando (Ghatak) Platoon of his Battalion in action. On staff, he has served in the Strategic Forces Command; headed a logistics branch in a mountain division deployed in the East; served in the General Staff and Military Secretary`s Branches in a Command Headquarters and as a United Nations Military Observer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the past he has worked on gender studies in peacekeeping, mental health management in the Army and has a published monograph on the Historiographic Analysis of the Military History of Post-Independent India. His interest in Myanmar stemmed from his tenures in the East and his frustration at the lack of available information about the country, which is perpetually scarce and shrouded in secrecy. The officer has more interests than he has the time and money to pursue, with some of the abiding ones being music, outdoor life and adventure sports, not necessarily in that order.

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