PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & the Non-Aligned Movement
“India has of late, chosen to debunk non-alignment in its pursuit of multi-alignment.” Comment.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
departure is real: LEMOA/COMCASA, PM absent from NAM summits, Jaishankar’s engage-manage-cultivate-reassure — but neither recent nor complete: Nehru ready to join the side of interest, 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty, Ganguly's realist turn after 1962, deepened 1991 — the constant is strategic autonomy: Non-Alignment 2.0 — defining value, “maximum options” — multi-alignment spreads commitments (Quad, BRICS, SCO, Russia) so no partner decides for India — Saran: eribctance ve noctire
Body flow
Pant — no rigid non-aligned pigeonhole — but the charge lands on NAM as institution and Cold War idiom, not on freedom of judgment — Global South leadership carries it forward
Counter-view
R1 “debunk” overstates — Sood — reinterpretation, not abandonment R2 from avoiding sides to maximising options — autonomy is the continuity, alignment only the instrument
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
