INDIA'S WORLD-VIEW - EVOLUTION
According to India’s First Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who tailored its world view during the initial phase, two aspects of India’s world-view, namely, the positive aspect of peace and the desire to promote a larger degree of co-operation among nations were based on India’s past thinking on the formulation of foreign policy. The chief sources of India’s ancient and traditional values are scriptural texts like the Vedas, the law books by sages such as Manu, Yajnyavalkya and Parashar, the Dharmashastras, the text of Buddhists and Jains, the great epics, the puranas, legends and chronicles of great national events and the theological treatise and manuals of woirship. Though these traditional values underwent certain changes due to the impact of the Islamic and Western Culture, the works of modern Indian thinkers like Vivekananda, Tagore, Tilak, Aurobindo, Gandhi and Nehru show that they were very much influenced by ancient Indian thought, which in turn influenced their ide...