India’s Growing Visibility in Central Asia
... government’s policy, but over time the leadership adopted what some Indian experts describe as a “development-oriented” approach with a distinct cultural-civilizational component. It is within this framework that one should also view reports about India’s withdrawal from the territory of its main military-strategic asset—the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan, where New Delhi had at various times engaged in infrastructure reconstruction and the training of local specialists. A defining feature of the current approach is the expansion of the cultural agenda and the growing size of the Indian diaspora ...
05.12.2025
