Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India 9789814279307
When P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh launched India’s "Look East" policy, it was only the first stage of
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Contents
Foreword
FOREWORD
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘MM’s Strategy, Goh Chok Tong’s Stamina’
2. Chinatown Spelt ‘Singapur’
3. Asia’s ‘Coca-Cola Governments’
4. ‘An Absolute Pariah in the Whole World’
5. India’s ‘Monroe Doctrine for Asia’
6. ‘India Alone Can Look China in the Eye’
7. Goh’s Folly to Goh’s Glory with Tata
8. ‘The Lowest Point in Bilateral Relations’
9. ‘Scent of the S’pore Dollar’
10. Singapore’s ‘Mild India Fever’
11. End of One Honeymoon, Start of Another?
12. Shaping the Asian Century
Notes
Index
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LOOKING EAST TO LOOK WEST
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The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued almost 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publishing works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world.
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LOOKING EAST TO LOOK WEST Lee Kuan Yew’s Mission India
SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY PENGUIN VIKING
INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Singapore
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First published in Singapore in 2009 by ISEAS Publishing Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 for distribution in all countries except India. E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg This is a reprint edition published by arrangement with the original publisher, Viking, Penguin Books India, and for sale outside the Indian Subcontinent. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publishers. Copyright © Sunanda K. Datta-Ray 2009 The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the author and his interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the publishers or their supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Datta-Ray, Sunanda K., 1937Looking east to look west : Lee Kuan Yew’s Mission India. 1. Lee, Kuan Yew, 1923- —Interviews. 2. Singapore—Relations—India. I. India—Relations—Singapore. II. Title. DS610.47 I4D23 2009 ISBN 978-981-4279-04-8 (soft cover) ISBN 978-981-4279-30-7 (E-book PDF) Typeset by Eleven Arts, New Delhi Printed in Singapore by Utopia Press Pte Ltd
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Contents Foreword by Pranab Mukherjee
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Foreword by George Yeo
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Acknowledgements Introduction
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1. ‘MM’s Strategy, Goh Chok Tong’s Stamina’
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2. Chinatown Spelt ‘Singapur’
46
3. Asia’s ‘Coca-Cola Governments’
73
4. ‘An Absolute Pariah in the Whole World’
101
5. India’s ‘Monroe Doctrine for Asia’
131
6. ‘India Alone Can Look China in the Eye’
158
7. Goh’s Folly to Goh’s Glory with Tata
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8. ‘The Lowest Point in Bilateral Relations’
212
9. ‘Scent of the S’pore Dollar’
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10. Singapore’s ‘Mild India Fever’
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11. End of One Honeymoon, Start of Another?
293
12. Shaping the Asian Century
319
Notes
346
Index
377
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