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For more than one and half decades, India's foreign policy was largely designed, decided and determined by the Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He was also the foreign Minister of India along with the position of Prime Minister. India's position during the Cold War period was mainly determined by Jawaharlal Nehru. However with his demise, there was hardly any leader with his stature who could convince the political leaders and Indian people about the future of India. India's journey from 1947 till the present day, both in the terms of foreign policy and domestic politics, can be seen as a transition from idealism under Nehru, through a period of hard realism lasting roughly from the mid-1960s to mid 1980s to economically driven pragmatism today. Hence, Indian Foreign policies were determined by numerous non-state actors and other elements which gained momentum during the course of time.
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