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                                Chapter – India’s Foreign Policy                                                                                    Os
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              A significant component of the industrialization  plans                                    India's foreign policy from 1916 to 1964.   apt
              was the nuclear programme initiated in the late 1940s                                                                                 erw
              under the guidance of Homi J Bhabha. India wanted to                                                                                  ise
              generate  atomic  energy  for  peaceful  purposes.  Nehru
              was against nuclear weapons when India conducted its
              first  nuclear test  it  was termed  as peaceful  explosion,
              India argued that it was committed to the policy of using                                         The  Afro-Asian  Conference  held  in   Mind
              nuclear power only for peaceful purpose.                                                          Bandung in 1955, commonly known
                                                                                                                as the Bandung Conference, marked   Maps,
                                                                                                                the  Zenith  of  India's  engagement
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                                                                                                        India wanted to keep away from the          en
                                                                                                        military alliances led by US and Soviet     ce
                                                                                                        Union against each other.

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              In the case of Pakistan, the conflict started after partition
              over the dispute on Kashmir.                                                                                                          –
              Born the governments worked together to restore the                                                                                  XII
              women abducted during partition to their original families.
              India could inflict considerable military loss on pakistan,    China annexed Tibet in 1950 and little earlier, a boundary
              the 1965 war added to India's already difficult economic   dispute has surfaced between India & China. These two
              situation.
                                                                         developments strained the relationship.
                                                                         It took more than a decade for India & China to resume
                                                                         normal relations since 1962.











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