INDIA’S GROWING SECURITY ARCHITECTURE IN INDO PACIFIC: A CASE STUDY OF INDO- MAURITIUS CONVERGENCE

The rise of China across the Indian and Pacific Ocean along with new threats radiating from maritime domain further consolidates necessity security. All major powers such as India, Japan, United States, Australia, etc. are giving attention to Indo-Pacific counter China’s assertiveness protect their interests. Concerning country has adopted three approaches its geostrategic interests in region. First directly engage regional forums ASEAN. Secondly collaborating small middle Maldives Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Seychelles, Finally, engaging multilateral multi-sectoral dialogue global States under ambit Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, commonly called Quad. Using littoral India is process actively extending reach, interests, focus subvert Chinese assertiveness. So based on stated problem this paper understand changing trajectory India’s policy special reference Mauritius.