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India’s External Relations
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Write a note on the role played by India in maintaining Afro-Asian Unity.

Answer

Its role are described below:

(i)Nehru envisaged a major role for India in world affairs and especially in Asian Affairs due to its size, location and power potential.

(ii)India convened the Asian Relations Conference in March 1947, five months before attaining independence.

(iii)India made earnest efforts for the early realisation of freedom of Indonesia from the Dutch colonial regime. It convened an international conference in 1949 to support its freedom struggle.

(iv) India was a staunch supporter of the decolonisation process and firmly opposed racism, particularly apartheid in South Africa.

(v) India participated in the Bandung Conference of the newly independent Asian and African nations in 1955. This conference ultimately led to the establishment of the NAM.

(vi) Nehru was a co-founder of the NAM. The first summit of the NAM was held in Belgrade in September 1961 in which Nehru represented India.

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Some More Questions From India’s External Relations Chapter

“The conduct of foreign affairs is an outcome of a two-way interaction between domestic compulsions and prevailing international climate”. Take one example from India’s external relations in the 1960s to substantiate your answer.

Identify any two aspects of India’s foreign policy that you would like to retain and two that you would like to change, if you were to become a decision maker. Give reasons to support your position.

Write short notes on the following :

(a) India’s Nuclear policy

(b) Consensus in foreign policy matters.

India’s foreign policy was built around the principles of peace and cooperation. But India fought three wars in a space of ten years between 1962 and 1972. Would you say that this was a failure of the foreign policy ? Or would you say that this was a result of international situation ? Give reasons to support your answer.

Does India’s foreign policy reflect her desire to be an important regional power ? Argue your case with the Bangladesh war of 1971 as an example.

How does political leadership of a nation affect its foreign policy ? Explain this with the help of examples from India’s foreign policy.

Read this passage and answer the questions below :

“Broadly, non-alignment means not tying yourself off with military blocs... It means trying to view things, as far as possible, not from the military point of view, though that has to come in sometimes, but independently, and trying to maintain friendly relations with all countries. ” —Jawaharlal Nehru

(a) Why does Nehru want to keep off military blocs ?

(b) Do you think that the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty violated the principle of non-alignment ? Give reasons for your answer.

(c) If there were no military blocs, do you think non-alignment would have been unnecessary ?

Which concerns were reflected in India’s foreign policy after independence ?

What were the aims of India’s foreign relations ?

Which Article of the  Indian Constitution lays down with foreign policy ?