Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region; M.Laruelle, J.Francois Huchet, S.Peyrouse & B.Balci PART I: NEGOTIATING PROJECTIONS OF POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA Russia Facing China and India in Central Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Hesitations; M.Laruelle Central Asia-China Relations and their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy; J.P.Cabestan An Elephant in a China Shop? India's 'Look North' to Central Asia...Seeing Only China; E.Kavalski Afghanistan and Regional Strategy: The India Factor; M.Singh Roy Afghan Factor in Reviving Sino-Pak Axis; S.Singh PART II: INDIA AND CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA, BETWEEN COOPERATION, PARALLELISM, AND COMPETITION India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring their Bilateral Relations; J.Francois Huchet India - China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy's Analysis of Great Powers; B.Chaudhuri & M.Sethi Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia; Z.Huasheng PART III: CHINESE AND INDIAN ECONOMIC IMPLEMENTATIONS FROM THE CASPIAN BASIN TO AFGHANISTAN Scramble for Caspian Energy: Can Big Power Competition Sidestep China and India?; P.L.Dash Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in post-Soviet Central Asia; S.Peyrouse The Reconstruction Issue in Afghanistan: The Indian and Chinese Contribution; G.Sachdeva PART IV. REVISITED HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS, DISPUTED RELIGIOUS MODERNITIES From the Oxus to the Indus: Looking Back at India-Central Asia Connexions in the Early Modern Age; L.Gayer Uyghur Islam: Caught between Foreign Influences and Domestic Constraints; R.Castets The Jama'at al Tabligh in Central Asia: A Mediator in the Recreation of Islamic Relations with the Indian Subcontinent; B.Balci