CONTIGUITY, CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESS

CONTIGUITY, CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESS CONTIGUITY, CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESS The Importance of the Bay of Bengal Region in Indian Foreign Policy The volume examines themes like contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian foreign policy; the inter-connectedness of the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the importance of oceans to security and. [...] Introduction In Crossing the Bay of Bengal, The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants, Sunil Amrith writes: The Bay of Bengal is a large triangular Basin in the Indian Ocean and the largest Bay in the world. [...] The seminar examined themes like the contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian foreign policy; the inter-connectedness of the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the importance of oceans to security and commerce and India’s role within the broader region; the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road and Indian alternatives and the possib. [...] He is honorary president of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI) and the deputy editor in chief in the editorial board of Stosunki Międzynarodowe-International Relations, Journal of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw. [...] Tamil merchants frequented the ports of Southeast Asia and inscribed their presence in the ports of the Isthmian tract.31 The immense significance of the Thailand coastal area for the Tamil merchants’ operations is evident from the inscriptions of merchant organizations at Takua-pa on the west coast of the Isthmus.