ABSTRACT
One of the most basic premises in Jawaharlal Nehru’s world view was that India’s present and future situation should be evaluated in light of not only its immediate surroundings, but mainly the events and developments in the global system at large. In fact, he saw India’s future as conditioned by the turbulences in the global arena. Nehru’s globalistic conceptual framework demanded intensive interaction with the super powers, so as to give prominence to India’s relations with the United States and the USSR. His perceptions on the subject were ambivalent. On the one hand, he saw India as their coequal; on the other, he took for granted India’s need for political and economic aid to achieve its own goals, but that, too, without kowtowing to the givers. Nehru, man of vision and wide horizons, looked at events in India’s immeidate environment through the macro-perspective of the global international environment, as perceived by him.
