The ice free Indian Ocean on which 3 continents abut occupies approximately 28 millions square miles which is l/5th of the world sea area and cradles the peripheries of Africa and the Orient in two separate geo-political horse-shoes in which l/4th of the world’s population live and operate at different levels of political consciousness ranging from military dictatorships and monarchies to communism, tribalism, fundamentalism, and the world’s largest practising democracy. The area can be split up into 23 distinctly different ethnic segments containing all the major religions of the world and subjected to outside pressures effecting their internal and external interests as this highly fragmented region still contains a modicum of residual colonialism.
A Wide-spectrum Exercise
MIHIR K ROY
INDIAN OCEAN—PERCEPTS AND CONCEPTS: PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR by A.N. Kakkar University Publishers, Allahabad, 1987, 188 pp., 200
Nov-Dec 1987, volume 11, No 6