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“India’s policy of non-alignment has been guided by the genius of the Indian people and their interests.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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Non-alignment, announced by Jawaharlal Nehru in a broadcast of 7 September 1946, meant refusing bloc commitments while judging each issue on its merits. The statement traces it to two sources at once: a historical and civilisational inheritance (the "genius") and a calculation of national interest. The conjunction is the argument: India defined its interest through…

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  • The "genius": what the inheritance supplied
  • The "interests": what calculation required
  • How the two fit, and the limits
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