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The Indian Army's Punjab Regiment. India has historically shunned collective defense arrangements, but that might be changing, according to a think tank report. © Reuters

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- India's participation in a collective security arrangement with the U.S and its allies, especially Japan and Australia, is no longer an inconceivable proposition, a former Indian naval officer says.

Prakash Gopal, who is now a lecturer at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, said in a recent university report that there is "a greater appetite in New Delhi to engage with questions that would have been off-limits earlier."

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