uld be persuaded to contribute" (Hoffmann, 1990). India's prime minister was well aware that at the present state the country could not spent considerable amount of resources for a large defense establishment. An India aligned with no Cold War Power bloc would help avoid alienating nations like former Soviet Union and China, which were of great importance to India's security. Nehru himself realized that a hostile frontier with China, for example, would mean an expenditure of all Indian resources just to defend it (Gopal, 1980).
             Another standard belief that Nehru and the rest of his associates developed in India's foreign policy affairs was
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