India’s Involvement and Engagement with the Arctic Region

India has had a long history and association with the Arctic region, right from the writings of Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 1903 piece, ‘The Arctic Home in the Vedas’ on which Prof (Dr) U K Sinha has commented that ‘The contemporariness of India’s relationship with the Arctic is unmistakable but there also exists racial, philosophical, anthropological, and linguistic dimensions, which remains much unexplored.