Indias foreign policy jawaharlal nehru biography

The History of Indian foreign policy refers to the foreign relations of modern India post-independence, that is the Dominion of India(from to ) and the Republic of India(from onwards).

Indias foreign policy jawaharlal nehru biography

Nehru's foreign-policy: –

Jawaharlal Nehru, as prime minister , usually with the assistance of Krishna Menon, shaped the new nation's foreign policy. Nehru served concurrently as Minister of External Affairs; he made all major foreign policy decisions himself after consulting with his advisers and then entrusted the conduct of international affairs to senior members of the Indian Foreign Service.

He dealt with five major issues:^[1][2]

• Partition of India and Relations with Pakistan: One of the major foreign policy issues that India faced after its independence in was the violent partition of the subcontinent and the emergence of Pakistan as a separate state.

  India and Pakistan had tense relations due to border disputes, which led