Avinash Paliwal

Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London. Previous to this he was the deputy director of the SOAS South Asia Institute, taught Defence Studies at King’s College London, and was the Defence Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, also at King’s. His most recent book, India’s Near East – A New History unpacks India’s faltering attempts to exert control over its eastern hinterland.