The Role Of Decision Making In The Pre-Crisis Period Of India (15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)

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matters in
the continent of Asia. A major figure in India's decision making was Jawaharlal
Nehru, leader of the Congress Party, head of the Planning Commission and chief
spokesman of the government in Parliament. These titles not only made him an
important nationalistic figure but also Gandhi's appointed heir and a "major
architect of India's political institutions" (Brecher, 1959). Krishna Menon,
"the controversial defense minister consulted in almost every issue" along with
Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was also a figure of great importance (Langyel, 1962).
This importance was mainly derived from the fact that both shared the same
overall world view of Nehru. However, in order to understand the cruicial
importance of decision-makers, we shall looked seperately at each of India's top
men.
Menon was highly important and useful to Nehru in the essence that the
latter helped Nehru convey his thought and policies to the outside world in a
forceful and organized manner (Brecher, ...

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interest. And it was exactly this nonalignment
policy of Nehru between the two sides of the Cold War which was the projection
of Indian nationalism into world affairs (Maxwell, 1970). Nehru also expressed
the idea that India was an Asian power that should not be overlooked at. He
demonstrated that "in regard to any major problem of a country or a group of
countries of Asia, India has to be considered" (Gopal, 1980).
During the 1950's and 1960's Nehru and his advisors realized that India
was playing a far more than neutral role in the Cold War politics. She was a
very important player on the world stage, where questions of war and peace were
decided. He recognized that in s bipolar ...

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