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India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach
Authors
Saini , Professor jai kumar saroha
Keywords
India Out campaign, Diplomatic response, Strategic silence, Bilateral, Neighborhood diplomacy, Geopolitical challenges, Narendra Modi state visit
Abstract
This research paper examines India's diplomatic response to the politically charged "India Out" campaign in the Maldives, which emerged as a significant challenge to bilateral relations between 2020 and 2024. Through an analysis of diplomatic strategies, economic interventions, and soft power initiatives, this study evaluates whether India's approach constituted strategic silence or proactive diplomatic outreach. The paper concludes that India employed a sophisticated combination of restraint, economic leverage, and soft diplomacy that ultimately transformed a diplomatic crisis into renewed strategic partnership, culminating in the landmark July 2025 state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The analysis reveals that India's multifaceted approach, combining initial restraint with sustained engagement, economic leverage with soft power projection, and strategic patience with decisive action, represents a new paradigm in neighborhood diplomacy that effectively countered geopolitical challenges while strengthening bilateral cooperation.
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"India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach", IJCRT - International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (www.ijcrt.org), ISSN:2320-2882, Vol.13, Issue 9, page no.b856-b866, September 2025, Available :https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2509225.pdf
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Saini, & saroha, P. J. K. (2025). India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach. International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, 13(9), b856-b866. https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225
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Saini, and Professor jai kumar saroha. "India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach." International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, vol. 13, no. 9, 2025, pp. b856-b866, https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225.
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Saini, and Professor jai kumar saroha. "India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach." International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts 13, no. 9 (2025): b856-b866. https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225.
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Saini and saroha, P.J.K. (2025) 'India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach', International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, 13(9), pp. b856-b866. Available at: https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225
IEEE — numbered reference
Saini and P. J. K. saroha, "India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach," IJCRT, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. b856-b866, Sep. 2025.
Vancouver — biomedical
Saini, saroha PJK. India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach. IJCRT. 2025 Sep;13(9):b856-b866.
AMA — 11th edition
Saini, saroha PJK. India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach. IJCRT. 2025;13(9):b856-b866. Accessed at https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225
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@article{IJCRT2509225,
author = {Saini and Professor jai kumar saroha},
title = {India's Response to the "India Out" Campaign in Maldives: Strategic Silence or Diplomatic outreach},
journal = {International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts},
volume = {13},
number = {9},
pages = {b856-b866},
year = {2025},
month = {September},
issn = {2320-2882},
url = {https://ijcrt.org/viewpaperforall.php?paper=IJCRT2509225}
}
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T2 - International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts
JA - IJCRT
VL - 13
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Volume 13 Issue 9,
September-2025
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