Sri Lanka, July 7 -- Sofia Shehana Basheer interviews Dr. Manjeet S. Pardesi on his recent work on South Asian international history. The paper titled "Mughal Hegemony and the Emergence of South Asia as a "Region" for Regional Order-building" was published in the European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 25(1) in 2019.

Regions have become a focal point in the study of international relations since the Cold War. In this paper, Dr. Manjeet Pardesi tracks the emergence of South Asia as a region to the practices under the Mughal state. By bringing Asian perspectives to the scholarship of early modern international history, the paper counters the belief that 'South Asia' emerged as a product of colonization and decolonization and loca...