title: Small is Not Vulnerable: India in Mongolia’s Third Neighbour Dilemma
abstract: Genghis Khan laid the foundation of the Mongol Empire as one the largest contiguous empires in history. Khan once observed that "with Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you". Stretching from Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe to the Sea of Japan, parts of Arctic, Mongolian empire expanded in the eastward and southward into the Indian subcontinent, mainland South East Asia and the Iranian 