About the Book: Two Decades of India's Look East Policy: Partnership for Peace,
Progress and Prosperity
The contemporary Look East policy, conceived, conceptualized and implemented in
the early 1990s first by former Prime Minister RV. Narasirnha Rao in the
immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War and in the context of the
extraordinary domestic economic challenges confronting the country, had its own
contextual rationale, imperative and compulsion. Since then, in the last nearly
two decades, it has evolved and acquired its own momentum and, arguably,
critical mass to give it a new and greater meaning, relevance, depth and content
in the changing context of