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Comment: Diego Garcia.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Diego Garcia is the largest atoll of the Chagos Archipelago, about 1,800 km south of India's southern tip. It hosts a joint UK–US base central to American operations from the Gulf to East Africa. For India it has tested two commitments at once: anti-colonial sovereignty and an Indian Ocean free of great-power bases. How New…

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  • Origins: a colonial detachment
  • India's position in three phases
  • The legal turn and the stalled treaty
  • Significance and limits for India
  • Conclusion
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