Answer:
The
Indian land mass has a central location between the East and the West Asia.
India is a Southward extension of the Asian continent.
The trans Indian Ocean routes which connect the countries of Europe in
the West and the countries of East Asia provide a strategic central location to
India.
The Deccan Peninsula protrudes into the Indian Ocean, thus
helping India to establish close contact with West Asia, Africa and Europe from
the Western coast and with South-East and East Asia from the Eastern coast.
No other country has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean
as India has indeed. Thus, India's eminent position in the Indian Ocean which
justifies the naming of an ocean after it.
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