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“Despite the potentialities, India’s ‘Look East Policy’ requires a major course correction.” Discuss. (200 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Look East Policy grew out of the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis and the Soviet collapse. Its intellectual statement was P. V. Narasimha Rao's Singapore Lecture of 8 September 1994, which never used the label. By 2012 the diplomatic gains were plain, but the economic and physical foundations lagged behind them. That gap makes the statement…

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