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Examine the evolution of India’s role in the global nuclear order.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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The global nuclear order is the NPT-centred hierarchy of five lawful nuclear-weapon states and everyone else, backed by IAEA safeguards, supplier cartels and the test-ban norm. India's role in it has moved from architect and critic, to outlier, to accommodated de facto nuclear power, without India dropping its core objection to discrimination.

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  • Phases of the evolution
  • Why the role changed
  • The position in 2026
  • Limits of the evolution
  • Conclusion
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