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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Whoever controls the Indian Ocean, dominates Asia. This Ocean is the key to seven seas. In the 215'' century, the fate of the world would be decided on its waters".
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions. ; The world's earliest civilisations in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, the ' Indian subcontinent, Persia and later in Southeast Asia, all developed around the Indian Ocean. Today its littorals and hinterland comprises more than fifty nation states and two-thirds of the world's known reserves of strategic raw materials while an estimated 40 °/o of the world's offshore oil production comes from it.2 The Oceans have been historically the arenas for contest between maritime powers.
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