MAHASAGAR
India's Maritime Doctrine
MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions) is India's updated maritime vision doctrine, announced in March 2025. It is the successor to SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region), which was articulated in March 2015. While SAGAR positioned India as a "net security provider" primarily within the Indian Ocean Region, MAHASAGAR broadens this vision geographically (to the wider Indo-Pacific and Global South) and substantively — integrating economic connectivity, technological cooperation, sustainable development, and capacity-building alongside traditional maritime security.
- SAGAR (2015): Focused on Indian Ocean littoral states; India as preferred security partner; emphasis on coastal surveillance, information sharing, and infrastructure.
- MAHASAGAR (2025): Expands to Indo-Pacific and Global South; adds digital infrastructure, blue economy, renewable energy, and technology partnership as pillars.
- One of the first operational exercises under MAHASAGAR was the Africa-India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME) exercise in April 2025, involving navies from ten African countries.
- Small island states in the Indian Ocean — Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, Sri Lanka — are central to this framework as strategic nodes for maritime domain awareness.
- India has systematically equipped Seychelles with coastal surveillance radar systems, Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft (donated 2018), and patrol vessels (PS Topaz in 2005, PS Constant in 2014) as part of this long-term strategic posture.
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