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final point that I wish to make here is that we opted for the policy
of non-alignment with a visible anti- Western bias because we took a
parochial view of our civilization and wrongly defined the nature of
the state as independent India. Pandit Nehru saw himself as an
arbiter between rival camps in the cold war, in disregard of the
horror that was communism, just as he saw himself as an arbiter
between Hindus and Muslims within the country. Obviously, the cost
on both counts has been pretty heavy. If non-alignment has meant the
isolation of India from true centres of power in our area, the
concept of secularism has meant the moral disarmament of Hindus.
Pakistan and China could not have posed the kind of threat they have
to our security if we had made common cause with the West and the
Muslim problem would not have remained wholly unresolved if we had
not misdefined the nature of the Indian state.
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