How did India challenge bipolarity ?
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India want to make there country more successful among all other countries so they decided to challenge bipolarity to get success in there mission
(i) The Cold War had divided the world into two rival camps or blocs which sided with US and the Soviet Union. The newly decolonised states of Asia, Africa and Latin America did not want to join the either bloc due to the fear of losing their independence again. Under these circumstance NAM offered them a third option- not to join either alliance.
(ii) The founders of NAM were India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah
(iii) As a result of the following factors, the first non-aligned summit was held in Belgrade in 1961.
(a) Cooperation among the above mentioned five countries.
(b) Growing Cold War tensions and its widening arenas.
(c) Freedom of many countries and their entry in the UN.
(iv) The membership of NAM increased from 25 in the first summit to 116 member states and 15 observer countries in the 14th summit in 2006 in Havana.
(v) The policy of NAM to stay away from two power blocs but it was neither isolationism nor neutrality because these states were actually involved in wars for various reasons including mediation.
(vi) The strength of NAM was based on their unity.