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Discuss the implications of India’s strategic location with reference to the Indian Ocean.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Political Aspects

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India is a wedge driven into the middle of an ocean, not a state on its edge. The peninsular tableland juts southward for about 1,600 km, splitting the northern Indian Ocean into two arms — the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal — so that one country flanks both approaches to the ocean's busiest…

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