d. One set of Indian beliefs referred to the role India should play world. This role was supposed to reflect the fact that India was a considerably new nation-state.
             India also had to preserve her independence of action. It didn't simply fight for independence simply to become a camp follower of any of the Cold War
             Power blocs. The restrictions and limitations that such a position implies would be against India's national interest. And it was exactly this nonalignment policy of Nehru between the two sides of the Cold War, which was the projection of Indian nationalism into world affairs (Maxwell, 1970). Nehru also expressed the idea that India was an Asian power that should not be overlooked at. He demonstrated that "in regard to any major problem of a country or a group of countries of Asia, India has to be considered" (Gopal, 1980).
             During the 1950's and 1960's Nehru and his advisors realized that India was playing a far more than neutral role in the Cold War politics. She was a very important player on the world stage, where questions of war and peace were decided. He recognized that in s bipolar world, in which relations between the superpowers were based mainly on "balance-of-power calculations" (Hoffmann, 1990), a nuclear holocaust, for example, had become highly likely. He sought that India should stay out of the superpowers' way in the nuclear arms race and at the same time work to the reduction of superpower confrontation by "fostering communication, engaging in constructive diplomacy and public judging each action of the United States and the former Soviet Union on its merits" (Brecher, 1959). Nehru strongly believed that this trend will only act to the good of India, for it was "economic development that was the countries primary goal" (Hoffmann, 1990). So the act of nonalignment was an act of peace and not hostility. A nonalignment trend will also allow India to receive development aid from "as many countries as co...