India’s Foreign Policy

The atomic energy commission was set by the then PM Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru to produce electricity from atomic energy, increase the crop yield & develop Nano technology.

Hence option C is appropriate answer.

The two factors included in national interest of any country are Defense i.e. protection of country’s independence and Economic development to maintain the independence.

The prior objective of foreign policy of India are maintaining friendly relations with other nations and respect the international laws.

India successfully carried out an underground test of an atomic device

at Pokhran in Rajasthan.

1. True

Explanation: He followed the policy of non-alignment. He implemented several plans to improve relation and several efforts to sort border dispute.

2. True

Explanation: Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to establish many dialogues between India and Pakistan but was not successful.

1. The objectives of our foreign policy should be to maintain friendly relations

with other nations and respect international law. Art. 51 among the Directive Principles of State Policy lay down the broad framework for foreign policy. According to which India should safeguard international peace and resolve issues in peaceful way.

2. National interest is considered to be the goal and foreign policy is considered to be the means to achieve it, and goals changes wih time.

3. It means world devoid of wars, aggression and destruction. United Nation is the organisation that protects the world peace.

Many countries does their nuclear tests in order to prove their nuclear preparedness to the world. This boost other nations to increase their nuclear capacity. Hence threaten the world peace.

India’s foreign policy is based on maintaining good relations with countries and respecting international laws. It is based on five principles. These Five Principles are: Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, ii. Mutual non-aggression, iii. Mutual non-interference, iv. Equality and mutual benefit, and v. Peaceful co-existence.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee contributed a great deal to improving Sino-India relations.

1. maintaining Friendly relationship with neighboring countries but not at the stake of country’s security.

2. Protect the unity and integrity of the country.

3. Protect the interests of India’s citizens living in other countries.

4. To establish economic and commercial relations with other countries for achieving economic development of India.

Factors that affects foreign policies are as follows:

1. Geographical location – As some countries are far some are near and some have long coastline while some are landlocked, hence while framing policies these factors are considered.

2. Political system- there are some boundary regions that gets affected by the policies taken by different countries. Hence taking into account of those regions becomes necessary.

3. Economy- The foreign policies are established on account of economic needs, hence needs to be considered.

4. National Leadership- The prime positions like Prime Minister, President etc play pivotal role in framing these policies.

5. Administrative factors- The embassies in of different nations in each countries are the administrative factors involved in creating these policies.

1. India had trade relations with China, Ceylon & Egypt during Indus Valley Civilization, Silver, Animals & Precious stones were Traded. The studies found that there was great trade between Harappa and Mesopotamia. These trades were mainly of barter type

2. Later Vedic period also experienced foreign trade with countries like Babylon.

3. Alexander’s invasion paved the way of trade between India and west asia.

4. Be it maurayan, Gupta, or Sangam age internal and external trade were well organized and were of great source of resources.