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Uttam Kumar Sinha

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Uttam Kumar Sinha is a leading scholar and commentator on transboundary rivers, climate change and the Arctic. He is currently Co-Chair of the Think-20 Task Force on ‘Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda’ during India’s G20 Presidency.

After a brief stint in the print media and a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he joined the MP-IDSA in 2001, where he coordinates the Non-Traditional Security Centre and is the Managing Editor of Strategic Analysis published by Routledge, the institute’s flagship journal.

He is a recipient of many fellowships and leadership programmes including senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2018-2020); US-South Asia Leader Engagement Programme at the Harvard Kennedy School (2015); Chevening ‘Gurukul’ leadership at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008) and a visiting fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (2006).

His recently published work is Indus Basin Interrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru (Penguin, 2021). His other works include the Riverine Neighbourhood: Hydro-politics in South Asia (Pentagon Press, 2016) and Climate Change Narratives: Reading the Arctic (2014).

His edited and co-edited volumes include Modi: Shaping a Global Order in Flux (Wisdom Tree, 2023); MODI 2.0: A Resolve To Secure India (Pentagon Press, 2021); The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s Foreign Policy (Wisdom Tree, 2016); Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia: Approaches and Responses (Routledge, 2015); Arctic: Commerce, Governance and Policy (Routledge, 2015) and Emerging Strategic Trends in Asia (Pentagon Press, 2015).

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  • Email:uksinha2001[at]gmail[dot]com
  • Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

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As CCP celebrates its centenary, Mao’s hydraulic legacy lives on

An opinion piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘As CCP celebrates its centenary, Mao’s hydraulic legacy lives on’ has been published in Hindustan Times on July 1 2021.

As it celebrates its centenary on July 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has put out a propaganda offensive, extolling socialist culture with nationalistic messages, writes Dr. Sinha.

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  • Published: 1 July, 2021

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India a Tri-Polar Nation: Breaking the Ice

Dr. Uttam Sinha's article ‘India a Tripolar Nation: Breaking the Ice’ has been published in the April 16-30, 2021, Vol. 1 Issue 20 of Brisbane-based ‘India News’.

India’s Arctic approach needs to be well rounded and comprehensive considering the convergence of the threegeos: the geo-physical, the geo-economic and the geo-strategic, writes Dr. Sinha.

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  • Published: 20 April, 2021

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As a tri-polar nation, India has a critical role in the Arctic

The Hindustan Times published an Opinion Piece by Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘As a tri-polar nation, India has a critical role in the Arctic’, on April 11, 2021.

For India, the Arctic has a deep civilisational connect. It enshrines a consciousness of human social evolution as a response to the physical environment as Bal Gangadhar Tilak expressed in his work, The Arctic Home in the Vedas (1903), writes Dr. Sinha.

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  • Published: 11 April, 2021

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India must leverage the Indus Water Treaty for progress

The Opinion Piece of Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, titled ‘India must leverage the Indus Water Treaty for progress’ has been published in the Hindustan Times on March 23, 2021.

The provisions of the treaty entitled for India on the western rivers remain woefully unutilised both in terms of storage capacity and hydropower generation. After the effective abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the current government, which realises water as a mean to socioeconomic ends, has fast-tracked a number of multi-purpose river projects in Kashmir, writes Dr. Sinha.

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  • Published: 23 March, 2021

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China’s hydro hegemony is overstated. But India needs a plan

The opinion piece of Dr. Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, 'China’s hydro hegemony is overstated. But India needs a plan', has been published in Hindustan Times on March 12, 2021.

Pursuing a more meaningful water dialogue on hydrological data-sharing is essential, but India would require building a lower riparian coalition with Bhutan and Bangladesh on the Brahmaputra, writes Dr.Sinha.

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  • Published: 12 March, 2021

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India’s Arctic Approach: Not so far and away anymore

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Uttam Sinha’s opinion piece ‘India's Arctic Approach: Not so far and away anymore’ has been published in ‘The Nationalist’, a bi-monthly journal of the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.

India’s Arctic approach needs to be well rounded and comprehensive, considering the convergence of the three geos: the geo-physical, the geo-economic and the geo-strategic, writes Dr. Sinha.

The Nationalist - Issue : May 2018 (spmrf.org)

  • Published: 3 March, 2021

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Indus Basin Uninterrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Uttam Sinha’s book ‘Indus Basin Uninterrupted’ is published by the Penguin Random House, 2021.

The book, with an easy narration and rich archival material, brings alive a meandering journey of peace, conflict and commerce on the Indus basin. The Indus system of rivers, as a powerful symbol of the passage of time, represents not only the interdependence and interpenetration of land and water, but equally the unfolding of political identities, social churning and economic returns. From Alexander’s campaign to Qásim crossing the Indus and laying the foundation of Muslim rule in India; from the foreign invaders and their ‘loot and scoot’ to the Mughal rulers’ perspective on hydrology and water use; from the British ‘great game’ on the Indus basin to the bitter and bloody Partition; and finally, as a historical pause, the signing of the Indus Waters Treaty—this book is a spectrum of spectacular events, turning points and of personalities and characters and their actions that were full of marvel.

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  • Published: 11 February, 2021

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