Question

India is known as the ‘Mistress of the Eastern Seas’. Justify the statement by giving two reasons.

Answer 1

• Strategic position on the globe with respect to trade, social and cultural interactions.
• Indian Ocean bridges the gap between east and west.
• India enjoys a long coastline in the eastern seas; no other country has such long coastline in Indian Ocean.
• Most dominating in terms of size, location, economic resources among the littoral states.
• India acts as a principal entrepot in oceanic trade.
• All trans-Indian Ocean trade routes skirt the shores of India.
• Economically and culturally, India’s all major contacts with the outside world for the last two millennia have been by sea.