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Jawaharlal Nehru was the architect of India’s policy of non-alignment. In the light of this statement discuss India’s relations with the two ‘Power Blocks’ between 1947-1964

  • UPSC 2001
  • Consolidation as a Nation

Nehru personally controlled India's external relations for seventeen years, making non-alignment the single most defining feature of India's engagement with the US-led Western bloc and the Soviet-led Eastern bloc.

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  • Origins of Nehru's Non-Alignment
  • Institutional Architecture of Non-Alignment
  • Relations with the Western Bloc
  • Relations with the Eastern Bloc
  • Mediatory Diplomacy as Evidence of Independence
  • Strains and Limits by 1962-64

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