Foreign Policy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee served as India’s 10th Prime Minister between 19 March 1998 and 22 May 2004. Key highlights of his foreign policy are as follows: Pokharan-II and Its implications In the elections, the BJP manifesto had promised that party ..

Gujral Doctrine

In the 1996 elections, BJP emerged as single largest party with 160 seats. Its leader AB Vajpayee was invited to form government but he had to resign only after remaining for 13 days in office. After thus, the National Front-Left ..

Foreign Policy of PV Narsimha Rao

PV Narsimha Rao was one of the ablest prime ministers of India who remained in power between 1991 and 1996. He was first prime minister of India in post-cold war world and first prime minister outside of Nehru family to ..

Foreign Policy of VP Singh and Chandra Shekhar

After the 1989 elections, a coalition third front government had come to power in centre with external support of BJP and Left. This government was led by Prime Minister VP Singh. The first major decision of VP Singh government was ..

Foreign Policy of Rajiv Gandhi

On 31 October 1984 Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards. Within hours of the assassination Rajiv Gandhi emerged as new Prime Minister of India. The Parliament was dissolved and Fresh elections held which gave a landslide victory to Congress. ..

Shimla Agreement

Shimla Agreement was signed at Shimla, India, by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the President of Pakistan, and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India on the night of July 2nd, 1972. The agreement was much more than a peace treaty seeking ..

Foreign Policy of Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi is often described as a practitioner of realpolitik for her expedient, unprincipled and ruthless pursuit of power. Here is a brief backgrounder to circumstances that shaped Indira’s Foreign Policy. External Environment When she became PM in 1966, world ..

Nehru’s Tibet Policy

Officially, India / Nehru had no policy document on Tibet. India’s support to China on recognition of Tibet (as part of China) was basically one of the few actions of Nehru aimed at establishing strong relationship with China. The other ..