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How To Write An Essay On India's Foreign Policy

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India’s foreign policy during Jawaharlal Nehru’s reign was characterized by the Prime Minister’s desire to forge the nation’s identity without any overt commitment to either the United States of America (USA) or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR).

In his first broadcast on the All India Radio on 7 September 1946, Nehru highlighted his approach to foreign affairs, stating that he would work towards establishing with developed countries. He clarified that while India would be seeking cooperation from the developed countries it won’t be involved in power politics. India’s policy of nonalignment was dictated by the aim of preserving the newly independent nation’s autonomy internationally by refusing to get into collusion with both the Western and Eastern power blocs. …show more content…

Nehru during his state visit to the Soviet Union in 1955 received unprecedented welcome. His visit was followed by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev visit to India in the same year. The Soviet leaders endorsed and backed India's position against Pakistan on Kashmir and against Portugal on Goa.

India forged cooperative ties with the Soviet Union in the sectors of industrial development and defense production and purchases. Nehru however ensured that provisions were made for licensed manufacture and modification in India, one criterion of self-reliant on which he placed great emphasis.

Nehru’s policy of not completely aligning with either of the power blocs needs to be analysed within India’s political and social condition of the time. A major economic factor for the adoption of the policy had been India’s economic backwardness. Reeling under the aftermaths of a bitter partition and struggling to establish a nascent economy, India required foreign aid to financially sustain

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