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“India has of late, chosen to debunk non-alignment in its pursuit of multi-alignment.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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Non-alignment, announced by Jawaharlal Nehru in his broadcast of 7 September 1946 as keeping away from "the power politics of groups, aligned against one another", served India both as grand strategy and as a claim to exceptionalism. Multi-alignment, simultaneous issue-specific partnerships with rival powers, none binding, now dominates official speech. The statement says the second…

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  • The case that India has debunked it
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  • The definitional problem
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