During the struggle for national sovereignty, the leading political force of the Indian liberation movement, the Indian National Congress (INC), took on the difficult task of developing foreign policy principles for a future sovereign India, including the creation of an international organization of colonial and dependent countries in Asia and Africa. This organization was planned with the participation and even under the auspices of British India. Such an association was supposed to protect the right of peoples to self-determination, ensuring their economic, geopolitical and social interests.
The desire for this kind of unification is reflected in the political writings and statements of the leading leaders of the INC - Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
The political views of the Indian patriots successfully complemented each other. Gandhi, as the" apostle of nonviolence", actively promoted the principle of nonviolence in international relations and considered it necessary to completely exclude war and armed forces from the Indian political reality.
Nehru, in turn, opposed the absolutization of nonviolence to his "spiritual gurus" with the cold mind and personal experience of a pragmatic and internationalist politician who knows the international situation. He was sympathetic to Gandhi's views. And Gandhi himself and other INC leaders recognized Nehru as a leading ideologue and politician in the sphere of international life since the late 1920s.
Nehru tried to bring the Indian national liberation movement out of international isolation by seeking to establish contacts and cooperation with foreign anti-imperialist movements in both the West and East. Among them were the Chinese Kuomintang, the Communist Party of China( CPC), the Comintern, and the left - wing British Labor Party (Nehru, 1970, p.267-270). In the pages of the League of Nations magazine Review Nation, Nehru outlined his attitude to the prospect of liberating India from foreign domination and express ...
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