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Do you agree with the statement that 'the foreign policy of independent India has pursued the dream of a peaceful world'? Support your answer with any three suitable arguments.

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Give any three suitable arguments in favour of ?India being a staunch supporter of the decolonization process and in firm opposition to racialism?.

 

Answer:

Aim of the India?s foreign relations was to respect the sovereignty of all other nations and to achieve security through the maintenance of peace.

(i) One major object of Foreign Policy was to preserve the hard-earned sovereignty. Nehru wished this through strategy of Non-Alignment. Parties and groups in the country believed that India should be friendly with the bloc led by US.

(ii) Another objective was to protect territorial integrity. Our leaders opposed to communism. India should be friendly with the bloc US because that bloc claimed to be pro-democracy.

(iii) Third objective was to promote rapid economic development. Our country has many economic problems. Nehru adopted such a foreign policy which can help in our economic progress.

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India is a staunch supporter of the decolonisation process and firm opposition of Racialism. In support of this statement following explanation is given:

(i) The Indian national movement was not an isolated process. It was a part of worldwide struggle against colonisation and imperialism. It influenced the liberation movements of many Asian and African countries.

(ii) Prior to India?s independence, there were contacts between the Indian nationalist leaders and those of other countries, united as they were in their common struggle against colonization and imperialism.

(iii) Condemned Racial Discrimination - India fought racism in a determined way. The Eighth summit in 1986 under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi established the ?Africa Fund? with the objective of assisting Front Line states in Southern Africa and India was entrusted with the chairmanship of Fund Committee.