When Mrs. Gandhi fell to the assassins' bullets on 31 October 1984, India's relations with the Soviet Union and the East European countries had already begun to show signs of strains despite an outward affirmation in official documents of an identity of views on various major global and regional...

While paying tribute to the role Rajan played in imparting a new Russian/Eurasian perspective to Central Asian studies in India, which was earlier largely Himalayancentric, the article highlights the uninterrupted character of Indo-Central Asian relationship extending over four millennia. The...