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Was there any domestic sociopolitical basis for India to pursue the policy of non-alignment?

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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A foreign policy without domestic roots is a leader's preference with an army behind it, so the question goes to the core of non-alignment. Jawaharlal Nehru authored the doctrine, but it did rest on a domestic base: the freedom movement's legacy, a divided party spectrum and the needs of a developmental state. That base, however,…

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  • The case for a domestic basis
  • The freedom movement's foreign policy
  • Consensus across a divided spectrum
  • The developmental and plural society
  • The limits of that basis
  • Assessment
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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