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Volume : II, Issue : X, November - 2012

INDIA'S LOOK EAST POLICY AND ECONOMIC PROSPECTS OF NORTHEAST INDIA - A STILWELL ROAD PERSPECTIVE

TARUN DUTTA

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

As a part of the India's Look East policy Government of India is opening some new line of communication with East and South East Asia. Some are still to open. Among them The Stilwell Road is one, which formed a part of the legendary Southern Silk Road that linked China with India, crossed the Indo-Burma (Myanmar) border at Pangsau Pass and proceeds to Kunming in Yunan province of southern China. The road is about 1,736 km (1079 miles) long from India to China. The routes used by groups of people for their movement on either side from early past. The Naras, Phakes, Khamyangs, Singphos and others who are now living in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, most of them came by this route. It had a great importance from the point of cultural intercourse, immigration, frontier war etc. The culture viz. food habit, dress habit, economic behaviour, festivals etc. of the frontier inhabitant also too attractive which might open the door of trade, tour, and travels in this frontier region. If the Road will open in near future it will carry industries like above mentioned may uplift the economy of this part. The localities had a tie with the bordering people of other side which could not be stopped by the artificial boundary. From the last decade of the nineteenth century the reopening issue of Stilwell Road is advocated many quarters from the knock and corners of the country as a part of the India's Look east Policy. It has been assumed that the road will bring prosperity to the North-eastern part of the country along with the whole nation which has been discussing in this paper.

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TARUN DUTTA, (2012). INDIA'S LOOK EAST POLICY AND ECONOMIC PROSPECTS OF NORTHEAST INDIA - A STILWELL ROAD PERSPECTIVE. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. X, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1687.pdf

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