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Comment: India and the Bandung Conference: Hope and Reality.

  • UPSC 2001
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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The Asian-African Conference at Bandung (18–24 April 1955) brought together 29 states, representing over half of humanity, without a single great power present. For India it was the high-water mark of Nehruvian Asian leadership and, at the same moment, the first public evidence of its limits. The hopes were India's; the reality was negotiated with…

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  • India's hopes
  • India's actual contribution
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  • What survived
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