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    Jawaharlal Nehru Was The First Prime Minister of Post-Colonial India (1947-1964)

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    Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister after independence. While he agreed with Gandhi on independence, he believed India needed modernization. As prime minister, Nehru faced challenges of religious violence and tensions between India and Pakistan. During the Cold War, Nehru pursued a policy of nonalignment, refusing to side with either the US or Soviet Union. He sought aid from both to help India's development without political allegiance. Nehru believed nonalignment allowed India to remain friendly to all while pursuing its own policies and development.

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    Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister after independence. While he agreed with Gandhi on independence, he believed India needed modernization. As prime minister, Nehru faced challenges of religious violence and tensions between India and Pakistan. During the Cold War, Nehru pursued a policy of nonalignment, refusing to side with either the US or Soviet Union. He sought aid from both to help India's development without political allegiance. Nehru believed nonalignment allowed India to remain friendly to all while pursuing its own policies and development.

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    Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister after independence. While he agreed with Gandhi on independence, he believed India needed modernization. As prime minister, Nehru faced challenges of religious violence and tensions between India and Pakistan. During the Cold War, Nehru pursued a policy of nonalignment, refusing to side with either the US or Soviet Union. He sought aid from both to help India's development without political allegiance. Nehru believed nonalignment allowed India to remain friendly to all while pursuing its own policies and development.

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    Nonalignment and India: Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of post-colonial India (1947-1964).
    While Nehru had participated in the Indian nationalist movement and was a close
    friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nehru did not always agree with Gandhi’s tactics or
    his goals. Believing that India had to modernize in order to achieve a higher
    standard of living for all Indians, Nehru sought to modernize and industrialize
    India. Of course, Nehru faced enormous challenges. While the subcontinent had
    been partitioned at independence to reduce religious conflict, the newly independent
    nations of India and Pakistan were often at odds with one another. In addition,
    religious violence continued to plague India. In the midst of India’s challenges, the
    United States and the Soviet Union became increasingly antagonistic to each other
    as Cold War tensions heightened. Refusing to align India with either nation, Nehru
    pursued a policy of nonalignment or a policy of neutrality. Nehru was prepared to
    welcome aid from either nation in hopes of alleviating India’s suffering and
    ensuring India’s progress.
    Primary Source: Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech in Washington, D.C., December 18,
    1956, printed in the U.S. Department of State Bulletin, January 14, 1957, pp. 4950
    “The preservation of peace forms the central aim of India's policy. It is in the
    pursuit of this policy that we have chosen the path of nonalinement [nonalignment]
    in any military or like pact of alliance. Nonalinement does not mean passivity of
    mind or action, lack of faith or conviction. It does not mean submission to what we
    consider evil. It is a positive and dynamic approach to such problems that confront
    us. We believe that each country has not only the right to freedom but also to decide
    its own policy and way of life. Only thus can true freedom flourish and a people
    grow according to their own genius. We believe, therefore, in nonaggression and
    noninterference by one country in the affairs of another and the growth of tolerance
    between them and the capacity for peaceful coexistence. We think that by the free
    exchange of ideas and trade and other contacts between nations each will learn from
    the other and truth will prevail. We therefore endeavor to maintain friendly
    relations with all countries, even though we may disagree with them in their policies
    or structure of government. We think that by this approach we can serve not only
    our country but also the larger causes of` peace and good; fellowship in the world.”
    Questions:
    1: What were Jawaharlal Nehru’s goals for independent India?
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    2: Describe Nehru’s policy of nonalignment.
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    3: According to Nehru, why was nonalignment the best choice for India?
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