Name: Shashi Nautiyal
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 101-105

No new nation was even born in such inhospitable condition as was India in 1947. Jawaharlal had to lead such country which was torn by communalism. Partition and food shortage although he had best colleagues to help him like Vallabh Bhai Patel, B.R. Ambedkar and C. Rajgopalachari yet it was his calibre to run the biggest democracy of the world. He wanted to make India a self reliant country free from the power blocs of the world after World War II. His efforts were interrupted in 1962 when communist China whom he considered India’s friend attacked India and it resulted in rout of an underprepared and poorly led. Indian army defeat was great setback for India as it was defeat of democracy by communism, it was like back stabbing by a friendly country. In India this defeat was interpreted in personal teems as that of Jawaharlal Nehru who held the office of Prime Minister at that time. This debacle nullified Nehru’s all achievements. Nehru’s attitude towards China was very friendly. Other than India and England the country that interested him most was China. India had cordial relations with her speculate threat of war from China as he had certain myths about true nature and purpose of China. In retrospect, it is evident that in the year between the invasion of Tibet in 1950 and the war of 1962, Jawaharlal Nehru made a series of miscalculations in his dealing with China. Thus errors were of two kinds first were personal – his officials who gave him wrong advice, second set of miscalculations were political namely, his ignorance or under estimation of the ideological dimensions of Chinese politics. Chinese attack on India was biggest shock to the India’s nonalignment policy. Chinese concealed their imperialistic interest in disguise of Panchsheel principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru the then prime minister could not understand the tricks of China and fell into her trap. Nehru was full of appreciations about China and this was clearly visible in his writings and speeches. He had perceived China as friend but his myth was shaken in 1962. Nehru could not forget China betrayal which later on proved to be fatal, for a year and half after 1962. Nehru died of heart attack.
Keywords – communism, nonalignment, imperialistic, Panchsheel