and cultural legacies.

♤ The moral stance of nonalignment against colonization and apartheid neatly dovetailed with India’s Gandhian heritage.

♤ At the international level, the policy made sense as it enabled a materially weak state to play a role that was considerably more significant than its capabilities would allow it to be.

Furthermore, the NAM in the 1970s and 1980s, it can be argued, served as a forum to channel