India and Southeast Asia are connected to each other geopolitical strategically
and culturally. It is easy to trace out linkages between the two, but issues of
constraints and complementarities need to be understood in proper perspective:
The author's book Southeast Asia and India: A Political Perspective (3987) had
tried to evaluate perspective of Southeast Asia and India towards each other.
The present volume may be considered a broader extension of that study. The
present book may be considered important contribution as it connects the past
with the present, and examines continuity and changes in India-Southeast Asia
relations. India, sharing a contiguous land and maritime frontier with them,
have