{"id":1516,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/examine-the-increasing-significance-of-maritime-security-in-upsc-psir-2019-3905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:55:09","slug":"examine-the-increasing-significance-of-maritime-security-in-upsc-psir-2019-3905","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/examine-the-increasing-significance-of-maritime-security-in-upsc-psir-2019-3905\/","title":{"rendered":"Examine the increasing significance of maritime security in India&#8217;s foreign policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> largest littoral state + Indian Ocean = busiest sea lane <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Mahan<\/b>: sea power \/ choke points <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Indo-Pacific shift raises salience <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> maritime security moving to the centre<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> India\u2019s continental, defensive mindset <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the sea long under-weighted <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> rising maritime focus corrects a neglected destiny<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Mahan<\/b> (sea power \/ choke points) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Indo-Pacific shift <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Tanham<\/b> (charge of no strategic culture <i>yet<\/i> his own record of naval denial + blue-water navy) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Panikkar<\/b> &amp; <b class=\"pq-sc\">Menon<\/b> (geography compels naval presence) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> peninsular projection \/ Indian Ocean control <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Act East + net security provider <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Bajpai<\/b> (widened security = global commons, freedom of high seas) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> operationalised: SAGAR, Quad, BIMSTEC, Project Mausam, IORA <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> contest for choke points (Duqm, Sabang, 2018) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Rao<\/b> (strategic autonomy driven by maritime security)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Pant<\/b>: strategic thought still inconsistent <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> net-security-provider = aspiration &gt; capability <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> continental pull (China pressure in the Indian Ocean <i>and<\/i> the Himalayas) tests the ambition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> margin to centre <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> maritime security now a defining pillar, integral to strategic autonomy and the net-security-provider identity<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> significance real but transition incomplete <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> ambition ahead of capability <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> a defining yet still-maturing maritime turn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[37],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[81],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1516","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-37","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-indian-foreign-policy","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1516\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}