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state the locational influences of India on its people.

Answer 1

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Geography and Indian Strategy

India can take advantage of its location to become a major player in Asia.

Akhilesh Pillalamarri

By Akhilesh Pillalamarri

July 30, 2014

Geography and Indian Strategy

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In a recent article over at Flashpoints, Ankit Panda argues that India ought to play a bigger role in security in the Indian Ocean, its own strategic backyard. I agree. If India wants to be a major geopolitical player in Asia, it needs to leverage its geographic location to its full advantage.

India’s geographic advantages and its role in India’s grand strategy were clearly grasped by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, former Viceroy of India during the British Raj. Lord Curzon understood the geographic advantages of a state that ruled the subcontinent, truths that hold true today for an independent India. In his 1909 essay “The Place of India in the Empire,” he wrote:

It is obvious, indeed, that the master of India, must, under modern conditions, be the greatest power in the Asiatic Continent, and therefore, it may be added, in the world. The central position of India, its magnificent resources, its teeming multitude of men, its great trading harbors, its reserve of military strength, supplying an army always in a high state of efficiency and capable of being hurled at a moment’s notice upon any given point either of Asia and Africa- all there are assets of precious values. On the west, India must exercise a predominant influence over the destinies of Persia and Afghanistan; on the north, it can veto any rival in Tibet; on the north-east and east, it can exert great pressure upon China, and it is one of the guardians of the autonomous existence of Siam. On the high seas it commands the routes to Australia and the China Sea.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British-run Indian Empire and Indian Army, comprised of native Indian soldiers, was the dominant power in the Indian Ocean basin. India was the center of a massive network of trade and communication stretching from Aden to Singapore. Unfortunately, post-independence Nehruvian thinking in India squandered this advantage and allowed India’s informal empire of influence and trade to drift apart. Yet today, India is discovering its natural strategic horizons again. India’s strategy for increasing its influence in Asia must be guided by its location and play to its geographic advantages.

From Lord Curzon, we can understand that India’s central location in the Indian Ocean makes it the natural naval power in that ocean. India can use historical ties, the influence of diaspora communities, and the guarantee of security to increase its naval involvement in both the eastern and western extremities of the Indian Ocean, near the Straits of Malacca and in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. India would be able to increase its influence and earn the gratitude of smaller powers. As yet, India has no major rivals in the Indian Ocean, so it is extremely important for India to strengthen its naval capacities before such rivals appear, especially China. This is especially true since the ocean is one area where India, can in fact, exert maximum influence as opposed to some of the other regions that Lord Curzon mentioned.

Answer 2

locational influences of India on its people.

Explanation:

• The subcontinent of India is located in Asian landmass and is composed of diverse cultures regimes and interaction of people for the neighbouring countries as Bangladesh in east.

• Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet in north and Pakistan and the middle east in west. And Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar island groups in the south.

• Being located on the north of the equator the continent has a tropical climate is governed by the warm, hot, and humid temperatures through the most time of the year as from months of April to August and winters from Nov to Feb which effects the cropping patterns of the country.

• Due to its in connection with Eurasia, it has many indo European languages, the presence of the Himalayas belts in north protect the country from the invasion of cold and dry winds.  

• India is known to have a strategic point in location as in ancient period it was home of many civilizations and route of the spice trade and provided navigation advantages.

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