Analyze Indian trade relations with South East Asia.
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India has managed to achieve some major bilateral relations with the Southeast Asian (SEA) countries since launching of the LEP. It has entered into a few bilateral FTAs with Thailand and economic cooperation agreements with Indonesia and Singapore.
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Explanation:
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The first kingdom in South east Asia was founded at Funan (Cambodia) in the fourth century AD by a brahman known as Kaundinya who had come from India and had married the local princess.
However, Indian and Southeast Asian contacts became closer from 5th century AD onwards when inscriptions in Sanskrit language start appearing in many areas.
The Southeast contact was largely on account of trade. Southeast Asia is rich in cardamom, sandal wood, camphor, cloves etc. which formed important items of trade between India and the West.
Initially, the Indian traders appear to have settled along the coast, but gradually they shifted their network to the interior.
Java, Sumatra, Malay- Peninsula and other parts of the Southeast Asian region. They were a leading naval power and on account of their geographical position controlled the trade between China and India as well as other countries in the west.