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Describe the crucial role played by India in the NAM during cold war period. 

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i. The term non-alignment has been coined by India’s first Prime Minister Pt. Nehru. 

ii. The root of NAM went back to the friendship between three leaders – Yugoslavia’s Josip broz tito, India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser- who held a meeting in 1956. Indonesia’s Sukarno and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah strongly supported them. These are five founders of NAM. 

iii. As a leader of NAM, India’s response to the ongoing cold war was twofold: At one level it took particular care in staying away from the two alliances. At another level, it raised its voice against the newly decolonized countries becoming of these alliances. 

iv. India’s policy was neither negative nor passive. As Nehru reminded the world, non-alignment was not a policy of ‘felling away’. On the country, India was in favor of actively intervening in the world affairs to soften cold war rivalries. 

v. India tried to reduce the differences between the alliances and thereby prevent differences from escalating into a full scale war. Indian diplomats and leaders were often used to communicate and mediate between cold war rivals such as in the Korean war in the early 1950s. 

vi. During the cold war, India repeatedly tried to activate those regional and international organizations, which were not a part of the alliances led by the US and USSR. Nehru reposed great faith in a genuine commonwealth of free and cooperating nations that would play a positive role in softening, if not ending the cold war.

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