The author highlights the pro-socialistic bent of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), inspired by the desire to resist the influence of the former colonial powers and their capitalistic hegemony. The article points out that the cofounder of NAM, Pandit Nehru, even before Independence, leaned towards USSR and other communist policies, despite Stalin’s will to bring the communists to power in independent India. Nehru’s ideological tendencies led him to ignore Soviet and later Chinese hostility to India’s political system and to support Maoist China in various ways while accommodating the Indian Communist Parties.
