India’s Strategic and Economic Interests in Central Asia

Ever since the independence of Central Asian countries, they became the playground for New Great Game being played among major nations. Central Asia region is economically and strategically very important to the outside world having huge hydrocarbon resources. The big nations want to have greater influence in the region and India being not too far from it also has some stakes there to fulfill its security and economic needs. There are good prospects for India in the region provided that it must adopt a policy which is more pragmatic and realistic to the emerging power scenario in the region.