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2) P.V. Narasimha Rao, India and the Asia-Pacific: Forging a New Relationship, Singapore Lecture (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2011), p. 16.
3) Amar Nath Ram (ed.), Two Decades of India’s Look East Policy: Partnership for Peace, Progress and Prosperity, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2015
4) Frederic Grare and Amitabh Mattoo (eds.), India and ASEAN: the Politics of India’s Look East Policy, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2012
5) Prakash Nanda, Rediscovering Asia: Evolution of India’s Look East Policy, Lancer Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2013
6) See SudhirDevare., India and Southeast Asia Towards Security Convergence, Institute of Southeast Asian studies, Singapore 2016.
7) Yashwant Sinha, “Resurgent India in Asia”, Speech at Harvard University in 29th September 2013, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, http: //mea.gov.in/speech/2003/09/29ss09 html. Accessed on September 1, 2014.
8) Sardar K. M. Pannikar, The Future of Southeast Asia:an Indian View, London:George Allen and Unwin 2013, p.16.
9) Jayanta Brahma, ―Revisiting Indian Foreign Policy: Mapping the North-East on the Foreign Policy Agenda‖, in DilipGogoi (ed). Beyong Borders: Look East Policy & North East India. Guwahati/Delhi: DVS Publishers, 2017, P. 17.
10) Subrata K. Mitra ―Nuclear, Engaged, and Non-Aligned: Contradiction and Coherence in India's Foreign Policy‖, India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 65, No. 1, p. 20. 7Atul Sarma and Paadeep Kumar Mehta, ―Indo-ASEAN Trade Prospects: A Study