Question : Analyze Indian foreign policy of Non-alignment between 1947 and 1964.
(2004)
Answer : India’s Non-alignment Doctrine as a foreign policy precept was formulated by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. India’s Non-alignment Doctrine was formulated by Nehru as the touchstone of new India’s foreign policy and Nehru steered India in the international community accordingly. Nehru’s passionate obsession to non-alignment led him to establish the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) which he did in the company of leaders like President Tito of Yugoslavia, President Nasser of Egypt, President Sukarno of Indonesia ....
Question : Jawaharlal Nehru was the architect of India’s policy of non-alignment. In the light of the statement discuss India’s relations with two ‘power blocks’ between 1947-1964.
(2001)
Answer : The non-aligned movement (NAM) was largely a product of India’s efforts under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. This effort was aimed at organising a collective answer to ‘blockpolitics’ of the great power in international affairs. It also aimed to develop friendly relations among the countries who were trying to free themselves from colonial dominations. The basic thrust of the movement was in favour of peace, disarmament, development, independence, eradications of poverty and illiteracy.
As one of ....
Question : “With great skill and masterful diplomacy and using both persuasion and pressure, Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel succeeded in integrating the hundreds of princely states with the Indian Union.” Discuss.
Answer : The variegated pattern of the British Congress of India and the different stratagems through which the various parts of the country was brought under colonial rule had resulted in two-fifths of the subcontinent being ruled by Indian princes. The areas ruled by the Indian princes included Indian States like Hyderabad, Mysore and Kashmir that were equal in size to many European countries, and numerous small states who counted their population in the thousands.
The common feature ....
