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What are the implications of ‘Look-East’ Policy on the north-eastern region of India?

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • India and South Asia

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For four decades after 1947 Delhi saw the North-East through a security lens: a frontier of insurgency, the Inner Line and the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958. Sanjib Baruah (Postfrontier Blues, 2007) argued that the eastward turn could end this "frontier" governance. The Look East Policy of 1991, renamed Act East in November…

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