Abstract
India under Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and had planned for India to not take sides during the Cold War and instead act as a mediator between the superpowers in order to grow and prosper without surrendering her independence and becoming a proxy state. India temporarily surrendered her non-alignment and ask for American military help during the month-long war with her Chinese neighbors, in the Sino-Indian War of 1962. This I.S. examines the changing shape of the Indian foreign policy from 1949 to 1962, particularly in relation to the NAM, China, and the United States. This interesting decade and the politics behind it will be studied in different sections by works of various scholars such as Bertil Lintner’s India’s China War, Sarvepalli Gopal’s Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Stanley Wolpert’s Tryst with Destiny, and Bruce Reidel ‘s JFK’s Forgotten Crisis. This IS will argue that India had not firmly been a part of the global NAM because its main reasons for pursuing the former had been to resist an attack from the East which failed and forced India to look West.
Advisor
Shaya, Gregory
Department
History
Recommended Citation
Mishra, Ayush Alok Kumar, "India’s Foreign Policy in the Years Before the Sino-Indian War, 1949-1962" (2019). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 11741.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/11741
Disciplines
Asian History | Asian Studies | Defense and Security Studies | International Relations | Other International and Area Studies | Political History | United States History
Keywords
Sino-Indian War of 1962, Jawaharlal Nehru, John F. Kennedy, Zhou Enlai, Dwight Eisenhower, South-Asia nexus, Cold War, Non-Aligned Movement, Third World Coalition, Bandung Conference Political history, Border disputes, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet, NEFA
Publication Date
2019
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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