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Comment: Give a critical estimate of India’s role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

  • UPSC 2006, 2005
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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India is remembered as the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), and the claim is true but incomplete. Under Jawaharlal Nehru India supplied the movement's ideas, norms and diplomatic method; it could not supply the material power, institutional drive or consistency that would have made that leadership binding. A critical estimate weighs both ledgers: what…

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  • India's role at its strongest
  • The critique
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