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Give a critical account of India’s role in the affairs of the Third World countries.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 60 marks
  • India and the Global South

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For Jawaharlal Nehru, India's freedom was incomplete while other Asian and African peoples remained colonised; solidarity was an obligation, not a sentiment. India convened the Asian Relations Conference (March 1947) before its own independence, and has claimed a leading voice for the "Third World", now the Global South, ever since. For Vijay Prashad (The Darker…

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  • The case for India's role
  • The critical account
  • Weighing the record
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