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What are the hopes and aspirations of ‘Look East Policy’ of India? Explain.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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India's eastward turn, now Act East, has no founding document. Its nearest charter is P. V. Narasimha Rao's Singapore Lecture of 8 September 1994, India and the Asia-Pacific: Forging a New Relationship, which claimed for India a place in a region it had been written out of. The hopes were economic first, then strategic, civilisational…

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  • Economic hopes
  • Strategic hopes
  • Civilisational and domestic hopes
  • How far realised
  • Conclusion
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