India's Look East Policy: Prospects and Challanges for Northeast India

Haokip, Thongkholal

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1621484

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“…19 Attempts at such integration followed the rhetoric of developmentgap in the North-East, which began in the 70s, and was consolidated through formation of the Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) in 2001. More recently, the Indian state has implemented Look East Policy (2003), which was upgraded to Act East Policy (2014), whose main aim is to turn North-East into an important hub in India's engagement with South-East Asian countries, thereby transforming the region from being colonial frontier to postcolonial borderland to neoliberal gateway, 20 while maintaining the postcolonial centre-periphery power-relationship that historically existed between India and its North-East. However, a significant effect of economic liberalisation has come in the form of mass migration of people from the North-East (and Himalayan regions) to other parts of India, mainly cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, etc.…”

Section: India and Its North-east: Setting The Historical Context And...mentioning

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From colonial ‘mongoloid’ to neoliberal ‘northeastern’: theorising ‘race’, racialization and racism in contemporary India

Rai

2021

Asian Ethnicity

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Contemporary India has witnessed a rise in racism discourse, central to which are people from North-East and Himalayan regions, collectively referred to as 'Northeasterns'. This has recentred 'race' and racism as being a theoretical-political problem of contemporary India itself. However, existing literature shows that there is stark under-theorisation of 'race' and racism in Indian context. Drawing from ethnographic research and applying the racialization approach, this paper argues that 'race' in India is a postcolonialneoliberal construct, whereby colonial 'Mongoloid' is reconstructed into neoliberal 'Northeastern', such that 'race' in India acts as a layered mode of constructing identity and difference. It further argues that the 'Northeastern' category emerges as a result of exclusion from the 'Indian' category, which itself is racialized along Hinduised-Aryanised lines, such that racism is a product of a postcolonial centre-periphery power-relation between India and its North-East; thereby making way for critical 'race' scholarship in the Indian context.

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Section: India and Its North-east: Setting The Historical Context And...mentioning

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From colonial ‘mongoloid’ to neoliberal ‘northeastern’: theorising ‘race’, racialization and racism in contemporary India

Rai

2021

Asian Ethnicity

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“…India's "Look East" policy 347 originated in the early 1990s as an effort to "forge closer and deeper economic integration with its eastern neighbours," especially through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). 348 The Look East policy incrementally expanded in phases beyond this initial objective, to include a wider set of political and security issues and a large number of "target" countries to the East -"Japan, South Korea and Australia." 349 Yet despite this rhetorical focus, one assessment noted that "India has expended much talk but little action, and in its relations with its ASEAN partners, India has failed to play a major role."…”

Section: India and The Indo-pacificmentioning

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Reich

2021

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The field of grand strategy is exceptionally American-centrictheoretically, methodologically and empirically. Indeed, many scholars treat the United States as a unique case, and thus incomparable. This Element addresses the shortcomings of this approach by developing a novel framework for the purpose of systematic comparison, both within and among different countries. Using the United States as a benchmark, three dimensions are considered in which grand strategy can be compared: first, attributes of the major types commonly discussed in the literature; second, similarities and differences in the implementation of grand strategies over time, using US strategic relations with contemporary Russia as an example; and finally, across space, properties of the grand strategies that are interactively employed by other major powers in relation to the United States in the Indo-Pacific. The Element can be used by scholars and students alike to expand analysis beyond the confines that currently dominate the field.

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“…During the 1990s, India's foreign policy was redefined, and India adopted new strategy popularly known as 'Look East Policy' (Haokip, 2015) for strategic economic relation with South-east nations in order to encounter Chinese influence in the region. As a result, developmental projects like road, railway, dam, etc., took off with support and finance from World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.…”

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Environmental Movements in North-East India: Political Opportunity Structure and Movement Success

Rout

Yudik

2021

Review of Development and Change

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Since the last two decades, the North-East region of India witnessed many environmental movements with similar goals and forms of mobilisation that challenged government policies and actions. Many of them achieved their goals or objectives whereas others failed. This study is an attempt to understand the factors that determined the success and failure of those movements and protests by employing rich details of four case studies from the North-East to make a systematic comparison. This study uses political opportunity structure as a theoretical construct to understand relative success and failure of environmental movements in the North-East.

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India's Look East Policy: Prospects and Challanges for Northeast India

Cited by 6 publications

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From colonial ‘mongoloid’ to neoliberal ‘northeastern’: theorising ‘race’, racialization and racism in contemporary India

From colonial ‘mongoloid’ to neoliberal ‘northeastern’: theorising ‘race’, racialization and racism in contemporary India

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Environmental Movements in North-East India: Political Opportunity Structure and Movement Success

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