Suchandana Chatterjee, Fellow of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, has been associated with the institute since 1993. Her research interests include regional and connected histories of Eurasia, marginalised identities, representations on Eurasia's transition, the Buddhist space of Asiatic Russia and Central Asia, etc. She is currently working on the project Post-Soviet images of Kazakhstan: a cosmopolitan space with borderland anxieties. Her recently completed project Reconsidering Inner Asia: shared spaces, shifting identities deals with Inner Asia's spatiality and resurgent identities, and is awaiting publication. She has participated in international conferences and has authored, edited and co-edited several publications on Eurasia and Central Asia. Her publications include The Steppe in History-Essays on a Eurasian Fringe (New Delhi: Manohar, 2010), Mind and Vision: Perceptions of reform in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (Bookwell, 2006) and Politics and Society in Tajikistan in the aftermath of the Civil War (Greenwood Press and Hope India Publications, 2002). A student of history, she was awarded the doctorate degree by Calcutta University in 2002 for her thesis Emirate of Bukhara, 1868-1924: Encounters with transition. Her e-mail is suchandanachatterjee@hotmail.com.