Contemporary Central Asian studies have been developed by pioneers such as Denis Sinor, Alexandre Bennigsen, Edward Allworth and Yuri Bregel among others.
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Fluent in English, Persian/Tajik and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking Central Asian studies community.
Dogra has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Central Asian Studies Programme of the Centre for South, Central & South East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.