Sharma, Raghav ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4112-7361 (2026) Strange or estranged bedfellows? Discerning the Taliban-Pakistan relationship. Revista UNISCI, 72. pp. 189-208. UNISCI . ISSN 2386-9453 Available at: https://www.unisci.es/strange-or-estranged-bedfell...

Sharma, Raghav ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4112-7361 (2026) Alignments and Re-alignments in India's Afghan Policy: Past, History, Current Dilemmas and Future Prospects. In: Perspectives from and within India and its Neighbourhood. OakBridge Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Gurugram. pp. 137-150. ISBN 9788199624528 Available at: https://www.oakbridge.in/book/perspectives-from-in...

Belousova, Tatiana and Sharma, Raghav (2025) Embracing the Taliban: Deciphering Russia’s Afghan Policy. Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. Sage . ISSN 2347-7970 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970251383994

Sharma, Raghav (2025) The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban. In: Propaganda, Communication and Empire. Taylor and Francis. pp. 127-145. ISBN 9781003459200 Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003459200-9

Sharma, Raghav (2024) Is the past a prologue? Deciphering India's north-west engagement. In: Afghanistan in Transition. Taylor and Francis. pp. 145-155. ISBN 9780429281631 Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429281631-12

Sharma, Raghav (2024) Comrades in arms? Decoding China's Taliban gamble. In: China in India's neighbourhood : Shifting regional narratives. Routledge, London. pp. 83-102. ISBN 9781003474821 Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003474821-7

Sharma, Raghav (2024) Discerning Taliban 2.0 and Afghanistan’s political landscape. India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs. Sage . ISSN 0974-9284 | 0975-2684 (In Press) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/09749284231225677

Sharma, Raghav (2022) Cast away: Understanding experiences of Afghan, Hindu, Sikh, and Christian refugees. In: The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India. Routledge, Oxon. pp. 732-746. ISBN 9781003246800 Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003246800-68

Sharma, Raghav (2021) Afghanistan. In: Handbook of Asian states: Geography-history-culture-politics-economy Part-1. LIT Studies on Asia, vol. 8. LIT Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wein, Zurich. pp. 5-22. ISBN 9783643961003

Sharma, Raghav (2021) From the crossroads to the periphery: The Ebb and flow of cultural currents between Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent. IIC Quatrerly, 48 (1). pp. 35-45. India International Centre, . ISSN 03769771 Available at: https://iicdelhi.in/sites/default/files/2021-08/II...

Sharma, Raghav (2021) To safeguard its interests, India needs to step up as Afghan partner. Gandhara: Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty. Available at: https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/commentary-india-poli...

Sharma, Raghav (2019) Afghanistan: discerning China's westward march. Asian Affairs, 50 (4). pp. 546-568. Taylor & Francis . ISSN 1477-1500 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1672408

Sharma, Raghav and Afzali, Sayed Ikram (2018) Education compromised? : a Survey of schools in 10 provinces of Afghanistan. Project Report. Integrity watch Afghanistan.

Sharma, Raghav (2017) Book Review: Rajen Harshe and Dhananjay Tripathi (Ed.), Afghanistan Post 2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories. [Book Review] Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0974...

Sharma, Raghav (2016) Nation, ethnicity and the conflict in Afghanistan: Political Islam and the rise of ethno-politics (1992-1996). Taylor and Francis, London. ISBN 9781315597409 Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597409

Sharma, Raghav (2016) Afghanistan's ethno-political challenges: a case for federal arrangements. In: The political future of Afghanistan: issues and perspectives. Knowledge World, New Delhi. pp. 11-32. ISBN 9789283649754