Panchsheel

• • • • UP gets three new districts: Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar,Bhimnagar UP gets three new districts: Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar,Bhimnagar On the first day of her statewide tour,Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday announced the creation of three more districts — Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar and Bhimnagar — and reiterated her old demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into smaller states. On the first day of her statewide tour,Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday announced the creation of three more districts — Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar and Bhimnagar — and reiterated her old demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into smaller states. Prabuddhanagar comprises Muzaffarnagar’s Shamli and Kairana tehsils,and Panchsheel Nagar consists of Ghaziabad’s Hapur,Garhmukteshwar and Dhaulana tehsils. Carved out of Moradabad district,Bhimnagar includes Sambhal,Chandausi and Gunnaur tehsils. After these additions,UP will have 75 districts. She also announced her government’s decision to upgrade Dhaulana as a new tehsil. The Chief Minister began her state-wide tour by visiting Shamli in Muzaffarnagar,Hapur in Ghaziabad and Sambhal in Moradabad and announced her decision to make these places the headquarters of the newly created districts. She said there would be no change in the name of Hapur town. Mayawati also used the opportunity to play her old card,demanding division of Uttar Pradesh into three separate states — Pashchimanchal,Purvanchal and Bundelkhand. The Chief Minister h...

The 1950s saw India and China trying to build a game plan for how the two most populous states in Asia would coexist despite the ambiguities they had inherited. At the heart of this was the idea of Panchsheel, or the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. One of the biggest issues of dispute was a long, largely undemarcated border, and India and China needed to work out a framework for peaceful coexistence as they entered the 1950s. Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit to the Temple of Ling-Kou at Nanking | Wikimedia Commons Another thorny issue was that of Tibet. China had annexed Tibet in 1950, ignoring India’s concerns and interests. China’s military intervention in Tibet was viewed as a sign of Chinese President Mao Zedong’s expansionist designs. Jawaharlal Nehru in Peking with Chou En-Lai and Madam Sun Yat-sen, 1954 | Wikimedia Commons Then, in April 1954, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed Panchsheel, a bilateral agreement for peace between the two nations. Soon, the treaty evolved into a wider Asian peace initiative. The five principles of Panchsheel were: 1. Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty 2. Mutual non-aggression 3. Mutual non-interference 4. Equality and mutual benefit, and 5. Peaceful co-existence China sounded the death knell of Panchsheel and the principles of coexistence it enshrined when it attacked India in 1962. This war led to decades of mistrust. While Panchsheel was virtually dead wit...

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Contrary to popular belief, Panchsheel did not draw its inspiration from Indian philosophy, nor did it reflect lack of political realism on the part of Jawaharlal Nehru. Panchsheel was promoted by China and India as an instrument for advancing their respective national interests in the mid-1950s. China, the originator of the five principles, sought to reassure neighbours who had developed misgivings about it during the Korean War, and to wean them away from the United States. India viewed Panchsheel as providing some degree of reassurance in the context of the border dispute with China, as well as a means of countering us moves to create new military alliances in Asia. In a final twist of irony, the five principles found a place in the Shanghai Communique (1972), normalising Sino-us relations. The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a special place in the intellectual history of independent India. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the e...

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Contrary to popular belief, Panchsheel did not draw its inspiration from Indian philosophy, nor did it reflect lack of political realism on the part of Jawaharlal Nehru. Panchsheel was promoted by China and India as an instrument for advancing their respective national interests in the mid-1950s. China, the originator of the five principles, sought to reassure neighbours who had developed misgivings about it during the Korean War, and to wean them away from the United States. India viewed Panchsheel as providing some degree of reassurance in the context of the border dispute with China, as well as a means of countering us moves to create new military alliances in Asia. In a final twist of irony, the five principles found a place in the Shanghai Communique (1972), normalising Sino-us relations. The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a special place in the intellectual history of independent India. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the e...

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• • • • UP gets three new districts: Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar,Bhimnagar UP gets three new districts: Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar,Bhimnagar On the first day of her statewide tour,Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday announced the creation of three more districts — Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar and Bhimnagar — and reiterated her old demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into smaller states. On the first day of her statewide tour,Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday announced the creation of three more districts — Prabuddhanagar,Panchsheel Nagar and Bhimnagar — and reiterated her old demand for dividing Uttar Pradesh into smaller states. Prabuddhanagar comprises Muzaffarnagar’s Shamli and Kairana tehsils,and Panchsheel Nagar consists of Ghaziabad’s Hapur,Garhmukteshwar and Dhaulana tehsils. Carved out of Moradabad district,Bhimnagar includes Sambhal,Chandausi and Gunnaur tehsils. After these additions,UP will have 75 districts. She also announced her government’s decision to upgrade Dhaulana as a new tehsil. The Chief Minister began her state-wide tour by visiting Shamli in Muzaffarnagar,Hapur in Ghaziabad and Sambhal in Moradabad and announced her decision to make these places the headquarters of the newly created districts. She said there would be no change in the name of Hapur town. Mayawati also used the opportunity to play her old card,demanding division of Uttar Pradesh into three separate states — Pashchimanchal,Purvanchal and Bundelkhand. The Chief Minister h...

Latest Current Affairs • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): India India’s place in national diplomacy, significant size and economic prowess made it one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)and torchbearer of the Third World Solidarity by making newly independent countries a part of the movement This article will focus on India’s role in the Non-Aligned Movement within the context of the Civil Services Examination . Origins of India’s Non-Alignment Policy India’s policy of non-alignment was a result of its own colonial experience and its nonviolent independence struggle. It would be determined that an independent India’s new foreign policy should be free from the political domination and economic interference from Western capitalism and Soviet communism . The term “Non-Alignment” was coined by India’s first defence minister V K Menon during a speech at the United Nations in 1953 and later would be used by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru from 1954 onwards. In a speech at Colombo, Sri Lanka that same year he laid down five principles that would be the cornerstone of NAM policy. • Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and...

The 1950s saw India and China trying to build a game plan for how the two most populous states in Asia would coexist despite the ambiguities they had inherited. At the heart of this was the idea of Panchsheel, or the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. One of the biggest issues of dispute was a long, largely undemarcated border, and India and China needed to work out a framework for peaceful coexistence as they entered the 1950s. Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit to the Temple of Ling-Kou at Nanking | Wikimedia Commons Another thorny issue was that of Tibet. China had annexed Tibet in 1950, ignoring India’s concerns and interests. China’s military intervention in Tibet was viewed as a sign of Chinese President Mao Zedong’s expansionist designs. Jawaharlal Nehru in Peking with Chou En-Lai and Madam Sun Yat-sen, 1954 | Wikimedia Commons Then, in April 1954, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed Panchsheel, a bilateral agreement for peace between the two nations. Soon, the treaty evolved into a wider Asian peace initiative. The five principles of Panchsheel were: 1. Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty 2. Mutual non-aggression 3. Mutual non-interference 4. Equality and mutual benefit, and 5. Peaceful co-existence China sounded the death knell of Panchsheel and the principles of coexistence it enshrined when it attacked India in 1962. This war led to decades of mistrust. While Panchsheel was virtually dead wit...