India's Look East policy was launched in 1991 by the then Narasimha Rao
government to renew political contacts, increase economic integration and forge
security cooperation with several countries of Southeast Asia as a means to
strengthen political understanding. The book, while providing a historical
background of political integration and its fallout in Northeast India since
independence, examines the continuity and change of India's policy towards its
northeastern region and the economic potentials of this policy.