Prime Minister of India (1997-1998)
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He held India's top office for eleven months, but his real mark was a doctrine: the idea that a regional power could unilaterally ease relations with smaller neighbors without demanding reciprocity first.
Born in Punjab in 1919, Inder Kumar Gujral came up through student politics and the Communist Party, then spent time in British jails during the Quit India movement. After independence he shifted to the Congress party in 1964 and entered the Rajya Sabha. He served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting during the Emergency, then as Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1976. Two decades later, as External Affairs Minister in the Deve Gowda government, he articulated what became the Gujral doctrine—a framework for regional diplomacy that shaped India's approach to South Asia. In April 1997 he…
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It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.
...some parts of India were subject to militancy sponsored from across the border. The problems are in the northeast and the in north, it affects Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
After the tests [Nuclear tests by India], I had said there was no imminent danger to India's security environment which necessitated us to undertake the tests.
In my 10 months as prime minister, I made seven trips to Kashmir. Militancy reduced greatly during the UF rule.
The Gujral doctrine is a doctrine of good neighbourliness. In South Asia, India is the largest country and the largest economy.
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