India stands at the head of the Indian Ocean at the very centre of the Eastern Hemisphere commenting trade routes running in all stirections. Its location, size: and economic resources have made it the most dominating country among the firroral states, Indian Ocean is the only ocean in the world which has been named after a country i.e. India. This only proves the great prominence enjayed by India im early days when these oceans were given their names. The trans-Indian (Qeean routes connecting the developed countries of Evrope in the west and the developing countries of Asia in the cast must skirt the shores of India. No ‘other country has such a long coastline on this ocean as India has. Therefore, the Indian Ocean is truly Indian Ocean. Most of the air routes between Europe, West Asia and Africa im the west and East Asia, South East Asia, Japan and Australia in the east also and the consequent India 10 broader Indian Ocean geopolitics and coonomics has heen proved beyond doubt, Te Was India’s status as the principal entrepot in a highly profitable oceanic truce siructure which amracted the vest Asian Muslims, and the Exropean colonial powers towards India. India became the ‘jewel in she crown’ of the vast British empire due to its wealth wand because of its role as a fulerum upon which the imperial and commercial system in Asia was balanced, India thus commands an important strategic position on the globe with respect to trade as well as focial and cultural interaction. India is # concept. Indin is an experiment through ages. India is unique, India is India—no parallel example exists.