ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the debate on the Indo-Pacific as it developed under the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Congress Party, and as it is now evolving under the new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The first part of the chapter presents an approach for understanding the emergence of the debate on the Indo-Pacific in India which draws on Marxist political geography and state theory. The second part of the chapter details the geo-economics recasting of geopolitics in the 1990s, as India undertook liberalising pro-market and pro-business economic reforms, and focuses specifically on the recapitalization of India's regional imaginary towards an extended neighbourhood conception during this period. The fourth part of the chapter analyses the further evolution of the Indo-Pacific under the new NDA coalition government, which is led by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
