Hardcover. Condition: New. Myanmar, the Golden Land, has for ages been the last frontier, steeped in mysticism and mystery. However, knowledge about Myanmar remains woefully inadequate in most spheres including Indian academia, media and in some cases, even foreign policy. The irony is such that premier educational establishments in India provide exotic courses on countries with which India has no borders and are thousands of kilometres away, but do not offer Myanmar studies or language courses, despite India sharing a 1643 km border with Myanmar. India s two-track engagement with Myanmar commenced in 1991 and today, in 2021, has completed 30 successful years of bilateral engagement. The realpolitik driven two tracks being, to engage with Myanmar on functional levels, while concurrently pressing for democratic reforms. On 1 February 2021, all that changed with Senior General Ming Aung Hlaing s coup d etat 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 viz. the borderland studies approach, the geographic realism approach and the third concurrent approach being the centrality of the Northeast and its people as the principal stakeholders in India-Myanmar relations. Over the years the Northeast has been seen as a gateway or passage to the ASEAN and its markets, which consigns the Northeast to a transitory space, rather than a primary space and subordinates it to Myanmar and the ASEAN. The book counters this and suggests viable alternatives. The book also serves as a reference for the Myanmar scholar through the vast amount of data and various appendices which contain documents relevant to India-Myanmar relations.