ABSTRACT
The chapter plans to move beyond economic geography and explore the idea of a cultural interconnection through ethnic, linguistic and anthropological categories of the migration of concepts and ideas across East and Southeast Asia to Northeast India, which is at the centre of the Look/Act East Policy of India. The paper argues for a disaggregated inclusion of the cultural factor in critical geopolitics and its attendant economic sovereignty of the commons in the whole of Asia, which so far has ignored the marginalized Other subjects of Asia.
