LEADER 03367oam 22004335 450 001 9910744509303321 005 20231025232428.0 010 $a981-19-3529-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-19-3529-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30736813 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30736813 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-19-3529-9 035 $a(CKB)28172733200041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928172733200041 100 $a20230909d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultural dimensions of India's look-act East policy $ea study of Southeast Asia /$fSarita Dash 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvii, 503 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Dash, Sarita Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9789811935282 327 $a1 Introduction -- Part I Historical Antecedents and Current Cultural Practices: ?A Nation that Doesn?t Honour Its Past Has No Future??Goethe -- 2 The Past: Contextualising the Cultural Roots -- 3 Contemporary Agents and Their Workings -- Part II Cultural Diplomacy Instruments: ?Seek Ye Knowledge, Even unto China??Hadith -- 4 Religious Diplomacy -- 5 Heritage Diplomacy -- 6 Popular Culture -- 7 Broadcasting, Higher Education, Tourism and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) -- Part III Focused Undertakings and their Implications: ?Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam??Maha Upanishad -- 8 Look?Act East Policy and the Northeast Region -- 9 The Diasporic Dimension -- 10 Hindu Nationalism and Its Ramifications -- Part IV Conclusion: ?To us the most striking feature of ancient Indian civilization is its humanity.?- A.L Basham in "The Wonder That was India" -- 11 Overview -- 12 The Way Forward -- PostScript -- Index. 330 $aTracing the cultural interactions between South and Southeast Asia since prehistoric times, the book critically scrutinizes the current cultural diplomacy initiatives of India´s Look-Act East Policy. Reminding the need to look at culture as a two-way process and the need to re-define the understanding of culture in its Space Age setting, the author emphasizes on India realising its unique multicultural potentiality to broaden the outlook and parameters of cultural diplomacy to suit the unfolding World Order in the region. The nature and composition of the demography of Southeast Asia and its Indian diaspora calls for a balanced approach in covering the land and maritime sectors, the book further observes. Adopting a peoples-centric approach, the author argues for cultural interactions to go beyond the union government and its agencies and advocates for the role of state governments, non-governmental actors, and other community initiatives as well. 607 $aIndia$xRelations$zSoutheast Asia 607 $aSoutheast Asia$xRelations$zIndia 676 $a327.54059 700 $aDash$b Sarita$01429241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910744509303321 996 $aCultural Dimensions of India?s Look-Act East Policy$93567884 997 $aUNINA