The Mittal Institute's 2017/18
Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian South Asia Visiting Fellow, Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao, writes about colonial and post-colonial road-building in India as "
an act of power, which has at different times been aimed at smoothening relationships, securing borders, (dis)connecting people, enabling trade, creating spaces of contestation, or diluting boundaries between varied ethnic groups", in the journal Asian Ethnicity.