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“Some of the major changes that occurred in India’s foreign policy after the Sino – India war in 1962 were within the larger framework of continuity.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The 1962 war is usually read as the point where Nehruvian idealism yielded to realism. The record is subtler. The defeat changed India's instruments of policy (defence, partners, nuclear thinking) while its framework of non-alignment, strategic autonomy and peaceful settlement survived. In Kanti Bajpai's typology of Indian strategic thought (Nehruvian, neoliberal, hyperrealist), Nehruvianism was revised…

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