Abstract

The first breakthrough in the new era of India’s foreign policy in the 1990s saw an eastwards shift, a new ‘Look East’ foreign policy to engage South-East Asia. In more recent years, under Manmohan Singh (2004–present) this has been complemented by a westwards shift, a ‘Look West’ policy to engage with Iran and the Arabian/Persian (depending on whose side one was on) ‘Gulf’. ¹ This Look West policy is the focus of this chapter.