Tanwir Arshed
Assistant Professor
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My doctoral research thesis on Indian foreign policy specifically examines the role which the United States played in the strained relations between India and Pakistan. Apart from this as a researcher I have earned ground level research experience of how rural women can be empowered through an organization like NGO’s and Self Help Groups (SHGs) in selected districts of West Bengal while working as a fellow in a major research project funded by UGC. Presently, I am focused to continue my research on various dimensions of Indian Foreign Policy such as its changing dynamics with its neighbors and India’s new policy outlook reflected in development through diplomacy with ‘superpowers’ specifically the United States, Russia, and China.
I am further interested to look into the manner in which sub-regional integration is evolving and bigger (trans)regional forums like BIMSTEC, IORA, Mekong Ganga, SOC cooperation have emerged within the rubric of India’s Act East Policy for building a single economic cooperation platform and how these developments can change the status quo of the South Asian region in the near future.
Apart from this, I intend to carry out my future research and publication works on the growing trend of regionalism and fringe movements those are taking place in the contemporary Indian milieu. In a broader context, I propose to place this study within the discussions on public policy, community formation, identity politics, and democracy.
Along with these, I am also interested in studying the socio-economic conditions of the children and women communities in the hilly, tribal, and tea garden belts of North Bengal region. In fine, I propose to undergo an inclusive and wide-ranging study of how these marginalized communities are being affected from time to time through the public policies and flag-ship programmes initiated by the central and state governments. The larger question around which I seek to place my inquiry through an unbiased participative and ethnographic studies is to study how beneficial or detrimental the impact of organizations like SHGs, Local Self Government, Autonomous Councils, and Community Development Boards have been on empowering these rural marginalized sections of the society.
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