The paper contends that climate change functions as a structural force within the Indo-Pacific security complex, reshaping threat perceptions, maritime strategy, and alliance behaviour. Climate stress catalyses securitisation, drives eco-geostrategic cooperation, and transforms regional institutions and partnerships amid intensifying geopolitical competition.

Abstract This commentary examines the institutionalised precarity of environmental migrants in the Yamuna Khadar, where the seasonal cycle of flooding (Baadh) is compounded by the hostile interventions of the state. Drawing on field observations from Chilla Khadar and Geeta Colony, the analysis argues that the residents' crisis is defined by a double-edged governance model. While the state provides minimal resources through legal documents and subsidized rations, it simultaneously acts as an...

This paper explores the convergence of gender, caste, religion and colonial history in influencing the ritual labour associated with a significant regional festival in eastern India namely Chhath puja, through a thorough examination of religious traditions, folk customs, and historical data, how women's devotional rituals have been systematically converted into coerced labour under patriarchal and Brahmanical standards illustrating how fasting, culinary practices, and purity practices emerged a