China expands vertically, India horizontally -- Oman is everywhere -- Curzon's frontiers -- "Lands of India" -- Baluchistan and Sindh -- The troubled rise of Gujarat -- The view from Delhi -- Bangladesh : the existential challenge -- Kolkata : the next global city -- Of strategy and beauty -- Sri Lanka : the new geopolitics -- Burma : where India and China collide -- Indonesia's tropical Islam -- The heart of maritime Asia -- China's two-ocean strategy -- Unity and anarchy -- Zanzibar : the last frontier

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