In recent years, the geopolitical concept of the "Indo­Pacific" has gained traction in global geopolitics. The construction has been defined as a region that envelops a wide area from the Western Pacific to the Western Indian Ocean reaching the East African shores. The term ‘Indo­Pacific’ was elucidated by the geopolitics scholar Karl Haushofer coining the term as ‘IndopazifischenRaum’. Haushofer termed it as the ‘dense Indo­Pacific’ concentration of humanity and cultural empire of India and China, which are geographically sheltered behind the protective veil of the offshore island arcs’. In this paper author describes why india need to be engaged in this geographical region. Author’s also elucidated historical context of the term Indo-Pacific.