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Analyse Indian foreign policy of Nonalignment between 1947 and 1964

  • UPSC 2004
  • Consolidation as a Nation

Between 1947 and 1964, non-alignment functioned as the organising principle of Indian foreign policy, shaped almost single-handedly by Jawaharlal Nehru.

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  • Rationale: Why Non-Alignment
  • Instruments and Institutions of the Policy
  • Non-Alignment in Practice
  • Relations with the Two Blocs
  • Non-Alignment as Mediation and Global Activism
  • Regional Application
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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