My Myanmar Years: A Diplomat’s Account of India’s Relations with the Region

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SAGE Publications, Dec 31, 2015 - Political Science - 256 pages

An ambassador’s account of India’s relations with one of her oldest engaging neighbours—Myanmar

The Indian legendary texts call it Suvarna Bhumi or the Golden Land; its colonial masters called it Burma and its military government renamed it as Myanmar. Whatever the name might be, the country has long been in India’s cultural, historical and political consciousness. Essentially a foreign policy document, this book deals in detail with the geostrategic importance and relevance of Myanmar to India’s Look East Policy, as narrated by India’s ambassador to Myanmar during 1990–92. It is partly anecdotal and partly historical in nature, providing a first-hand account of Myanmar’s political turbulence and India’s changing policies under three different governments.

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About the author (2015)

Preet Malik, a career diplomat, had served as the ambassador to Bahrain, Cuba and Myanmar and was the high commissioner to Singapore, Tanzania, Seychelles, Malaysia and Brunei.

In a career spanning decades, Preet Malik has held various national and global positions. He has served as the director, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, and the Deputy Permanent Representative and Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, New York. He was the Vice President of United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). From 1992 to 1995, he was initially the Additional Secretary and then the Special Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, where he headed the relations with SAARC and was involved in the definition and initiation of South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA).

Preet Malik has written extensively on Indian Foreign Policy and economic diplomacy in the Financial Express during the period 1995–2000. He has also contributed to the publication Indian Foreign Policy Agenda for the 21st Century.

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