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“India has been the largest and consistent country contributing to the UN peacekeepers worldwide.” Examine India’s role in this perspective.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 10 marks
  • India and the UN System

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Peacekeeping was improvised during the Cold War, when the veto blocked collective security, and India helped shape it in its formative years: the Custodian Force in Korea (1953) and UNEF I at Suez (1956). The statement is true cumulatively, contestable in any given year; India's role is better measured by consistency and quality than by…

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  • "Largest": the claim tested
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  • Role beyond numbers
  • Limits of the claim
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