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Non Aligned Movement part 2
Last Updated On: 25-Oct-2021Posted On: 25-Oct-2021
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[color=#595656; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff]India’s strategic culture has been shaped by its history, philosophy and traditions. Centuries of peace and prosperity made Indians complacent and arrogant. India stagnated and ossified. That is why it could be so easily conquered by invaders, both by land and by sea, in the second millennium. Unable to repel these attacks, India’s tolerant Hindu rulers typically worked out prudent compromises with invaders. These invaders, as well as their retinue of administrators, traders, men of letters, artisans and others were assimilated within India’s fold and over time became stakeholders in a peaceful, prosperous and pluralistic India.[/color][color=#595656; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; background-color: #ffffff]Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence, moral behaviour and Satyagraha was rooted in India’s moral, ethical and philosophical traditions such as the Vedas, the Ramayana, Mahabharata as well as the teachings of Lord Buddha. Gandhiji’s own experiences in South Africa contributed to his understanding that India’s freedom was linked to that of other Asian and African colonies. In turn, Gandhiji’s thinking influenced Jawaharlal Nehru. Therefore, it is not surprising that the defining characteristics of India’s foreign policy in the first few decades after Independence were non-alignment, anti-colonialism, anti-racialism, non-violence, disarmament, and peacemaking.[/color]
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