Political Science · India's Foreign Policy
UGC NET Dec 2014 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer from the codes given below.
Assertion (A): India chose Non-Alignment as a foreign policy choice in the post-independence period.
Reason (R): NAM was an assertion of independence, equality and sovereignty.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both A and R are true and R correctly explains A.
Explanation
★Both A and R are true and R correctly explains A.
★After independence India adopted non-alignment to stay out of the US-USSR Cold War rivalry.
★The world was split into the US-led capitalist bloc and the USSR-led communist bloc.
★Non-alignment let newly free nations keep an independent voice rather than join either camp.
★The 1955 Bandung Conference laid the groundwork, stressing sovereignty, equality and anti-colonialism.
★NAM was formally founded at Belgrade in 1961 as an assertion of independence and equality.
★Since this assertion of sovereignty is exactly why India chose non-alignment, R explains A.
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