For a nation, maintaining friendly and productive relationships with its neighbors is both essential and difficult. The explanation is simple: the neighborhood is where the greatest risk is present because it is where attacks usually occur. India is not an anomaly.
History, culture, and civilization have served as the “umbilical cord” that has bound India and her neighbors together for ages. Because proximity produces both comfort and disdain, neighborhood interactions are inevitably nuanced and intricate. This is particularly true in a nation like India, where most neighbors are connected by what may be referred to as a “civilizational relationship”.
India’s approach to its neighbor in South Asia, besides Pakistan, swings between two