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India before independence formed part of the British im perial possessions, the British Government decided her \* foreign policy. British interests were supposed to be also the interests of India. The foreign policy of England during the nineteenth century was directed to preserving her far-flung em pire and safeguarding her world-wide economic interests. These objectives she tried to attain by a threefold strategy. One was to safeguard the routes to her imperial possessions. For this purpose she had to keep a strong navy equal to the combined navies of any two countries on the Continent. The center of the Empire was India. Therefore, the route to India was dotted with military bases in the Mediterranean?Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus. Eng land also dominated Egypt, the Suez Canal, the Arab countries and the Persian Gulf. A threat to Britain's imperial possessions and her economic interests could come only from the industrially advanced coun tries of Europe. To avoid this contingency was the purpose of the second plank in British foreign policy: to keep the balance of power in Europe. But Russia was both a European and Asiatic power, with ex pansionist designs in Asia. Therefore the t

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Author

J. B. Kripalani

Published

1959

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences