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Comment: Prospects and problems of India’s relations with South-East Asia.

  • UPSC 2004
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India's ties with Southeast Asia rest on an old civilisational connection: Buddhism, the Ramayana traditions, Angkor and Borobudur. A Cold War estrangement followed, and a deliberate reconnection began in 1991 under the Look East Policy, renamed Act East in 2014. The prospects are now mainly strategic and the problems mainly economic and physical. That asymmetry…

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