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Analyse the significance of India’s Look East Policy in the light of concerns of the indigenous peoples of North-east India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Look East Policy offered a long-neglected North-East a new role: a gateway to Southeast Asia rather than a militarised frontier. Sanjib Baruah (Postfrontier Blues, 2007) argued the region would gain only if Delhi stopped governing it as a frontier. The policy's significance must therefore be weighed against what the region's indigenous peoples fear from…

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  • Significance for the region
  • Concerns of indigenous peoples
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion
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