The Indian Ocean, world’s third largest ocean and the only ocean to be named after a nation-state (India) is, therefore, crucial to the making of the present trial and future destiny of India located at the center of this ocean with its triangular peninsula shape jotting towards it.
The vast ocean landscape of the Indian Ocean region (IOR) has, throughout history, been a theatre of intense endeavour, enterprise, competition and friction of more of an extra-regional nature with the Dutch, Portuguese, English and other imperialist powers fighting amongst themselves for their one upmanship in this region. The IOR has long been a pivot in global power equations, whose domination, or control, has guaranteed prosperity, and even mastery, of the greater global commons.
The Indian Ocean, world’s third largest ocean and the only ocean to be named after a nation-state (India) is, therefore, crucial to the making of the present trial and future destiny of India located at the center of this ocean with its triangular peninsula shape jotting towards it.
The vast ocean landscape of the Indian Ocean region (IOR) has, throughout history, been a theatre of intense endeavour, enterprise, competition and friction of more of an extra-regional nature with the Dutch, Portuguese, English and other imperialist powers fighting amongst themselves for their one upmanship in this region. The IOR has long been a pivot in global power equations, whose domination, or control, has guaranteed prosperity, and even mastery, of the greater global commons.