What does independence consist of? It consists fundamentally and basically of foreign relations.

Question

Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions: 

What does independence consist of? It consists fundamentally and basically of foreign relations. That is the test of independence. All else is local autonomy. Once foreign relations go out of your hands into the charge of somebody else, to that extent and in that measure you are not independent. —Jawaharlal Nehr

1. What does the extract signify? 

2. What is not an independence as per Pt. J.L. Nehru? 

3. What did India do to maintain its Sovereignty?

Answer 1

1. The above extract signifies the non-alignment policy of India. 

2. When foreign relations go out of the hands of a country into the charge of somebody else, to that extent, one is not independent. 

3. When India achieved its freedom and started forming its foreign policy, it followed nonalignment policy to pursue its national interests within an international context.