Geopolitics of India and Greater India (1943) by Dr S.Srikanta Sastri
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India and Greater India – Territory
Indian history has not always been the story of only that piece of earth's surface now called India. The ancient historians of our country divided the whole earth into seven regions, specially concentrating their attention on what is called Jambu Dvipa which stands for all southern Asia where Indian culture had spread through cultural penetration16. Bharata Khanda was but a part of this cultural empire which had lasted for nearly five thousand years and especially in the first millennium of the Christian era the cultural and commercial contacts were very close because geographically the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal are the high ways naturally affiliated to India in the centre. Geopolitical considerations as well as historical claims can be advanced to show that from the Hindukush and Afghanistan in the west to lndo-China, Siam, Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Malaya and Philippines in the east. from the Himalayas in the north to Ceylon in the south, the whole region is culturally and economically homogeneous. Geopolitics dictates that in the struggle between a sea power and a land power, the use of land based aircraft may be a decisive factor even if the sea – power attempts to blockade a land fortress. In Sparta and medieval Europe the land armies proved to be formidable but with the --------------16. See the publications of the Greater India Society, Calcutta
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