Anita Sengupta: 3 books

The emergence of state in the Central Asian region, in the course of the last century, entailed both a reconguration of political space and a reforging of Collective identities within the borders of the States.As the fuzzy limits of frontiers were transformed to more rigidly determined borders,identities were transformed.

The volume discusses what the Turkish Model, or Turkish Development Alternative, was and why it was promoted in the Central Asian republics immediately following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It argues that the Turkish Model was a myth that transferred the ideal of a ''secular, democratic,...

This book discusses the significance of cultural symbols/‘images’ in the nation-building of Eurasian states that emerged out of the former Soviet Union. It particularly focuses on the cases of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet era and argues that the relationship between nation- and...