Question

(3) state the highlights of India's Foreign Policy from 1947 to 1990
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Answer 1

Explanation:

This paper will provide a survey of India's foreign policy from 1947 to the present day. It is divided into three distinct historical sections. It will also attempt to explain the underlying reasons for these policies, India's initial orientation, and subsequent shifts that occurred over time. The first section deals with the period from 1947 to 1962, the second from 1962 to 1991 and the third from 1991 to the present. The choice of these three segments is far from arbitrary. The first period constituted the most idealistic phase of India's foreign policy under the tutelage of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The second began with India's disastrous defeat in the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. This period saw a gradual shift away from the early idealism that had characterized the country's foreign policy and the adoption of an increasingly “self-help” approach to foreign policy while retaining elements of the Nehruvian rhetoric. 1 The third phase began with the end of the Cold War and the adoption of a more pragmatic foreign policy hewing closely to the principles of Realism.