" When I talk about an independent foreign policy for India, other people talk about the neutral attitude of India. I object to the word "neutral" . We are not neutral.
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We have positive ideas . When we talk of an independent foreign policy for India, some countries criticize it and do not understand it. They ask " what is this"? Yet, in the final analysis, what does an independent policy for India mean?
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It means refusal to be pushed about by others this way or that way. It means deciding what you want to do yourself.
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You may decide in favour of cooperating with this person or that person, but it means that the final decision rests with you, the people of India. "___Jawaharlal Nehru.
Taken from the speech at a public meeting in Chennai, 2 October 1953. AIR tapes, NMML. Extracts.
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Taken from the speech at a public meeting in Chennai, 2 October 1953. AIR tapes, NMML. Extracts.
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Reference___Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 1 October 1953_31 October 1954, Second Series, Volume 24, page number 10.
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