Before the Non-Aligned Movement had a name, newly independent Asian and African nations gathered in Indonesia to chart their own path. Nehru was one of the meeting’s central figures.
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Q1. On 11 April 1955, an Air India plane called the ‘Kashmir Princess’, chartered to fly China’s delegation to Bandung, was sabotaged and crashed at sea, killing 11 people. Who was the intended target, who narrowly escaped by changing his travel plans?
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The correct answer is Zhou Enlai, China’s Premier. He avoided the flight due to a last-minute change in his travel plans, and was not aboard when the plane crashed.
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Q2. How many years passed between the Bandung Conference (1955) and the first formal Non-Aligned Movement summit at Belgrade (1961)?
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The correct answer is 6 years. This gap shows the idea of organised non-alignment developed gradually through several stages, rather than emerging fully formed at Bandung itself.
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Q3. The Bandung Conference closed with a declaration known as the ‘Ten Principles of Bandung’, also called by which name?
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The correct answer is Dasasila Bandung. Issued in the final communique on 24 April 1955, it covered human rights, sovereignty, and peaceful coexistence among nations.
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Q4. Roughly how many countries took part in the Bandung Conference, and what share of the world’s population did they represent?
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The correct answer is 29 countries, representing about 1.5 billion people, roughly 54% of the world’s population at the time. This scale made Bandung a genuinely global gathering, not a small regional meeting.
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Q5. The Bandung Conference of April 1955 was organised by five nations, together known as the?
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The correct answer is the Colombo Powers: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon. They jointly convened the conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
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Q6. Bandung is widely seen as a key precursor to which movement, which formally launched several years later at the 1961 Belgrade summit?
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Bandung is widely seen as a key precursor to the Non-Aligned Movement, which formally launched at the 1961 Belgrade summit.
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Q7. The Bandung Conference promoted principles of anti-colonialism and international cooperation among developing nations, later sometimes grouped together as what?
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The conference promoted principles later sometimes grouped together as the ‘Third World’, reflecting cooperation among recently decolonised developing nations.
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Q8. Which Indian leader was one of the Bandung Conference’s central figures, alongside leaders like Indonesia’s Sukarno and Egypt’s Nasser?
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Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the Bandung Conference’s central figures, alongside leaders like Indonesia’s Sukarno, Egypt’s Nasser, and China’s Zhou Enlai.
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Q9. The Bandung Conference is also known by which other name, reflecting its aim to promote cooperation among recently decolonised nations?
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The Bandung Conference is also known as the Asian-African Conference, aiming to promote cooperation among nations that had recently emerged from colonial rule.
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Q10. The Bandung Conference, bringing together newly independent Asian and African nations, was held in which country in 1955?
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The Bandung Conference was held in Indonesia in 1955, bringing together newly independent Asian and African nations.
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