Which one among the following does NOT figure among the Five Principles of Panchsheel?
- (a)Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty
- (b)Equality and mutual benefit
- (c)Peaceful coexistence
- (d)Nuclear non-proliferation
Correct — D, Nuclear non-proliferation. The five Panchsheel principles, set out in the 1954 Sino-Indian Agreement on Tibet, are: (1) mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, (2) mutual non-aggression, (3) mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs, (4) equality and mutual benefit, and (5) peaceful coexistence. 'Nuclear non-proliferation' is not among them, so it is the odd one out.
- (a)Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty — This is the FIRST Panchsheel principle — it is part of the five, so it cannot be the exception the question asks for.
- (b)Equality and mutual benefit — This is the fourth Panchsheel principle; it is one of the five, not the odd one out.
- (c)Peaceful coexistence — 'Peaceful coexistence' is the fifth and most famous Panchsheel principle, so it belongs to the list.
Panchsheel ('five virtues') is the set of principles governing peaceful relations between states, first codified in the 1954 Agreement between India and China over Tibet and popularised by Nehru and Zhou Enlai. It later fed into the guiding ideas of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Three options are verbatim Panchsheel principles; one is a modern arms-control idea. Nuclear non-proliferation belongs to treaties like the NPT (1968), not to the 1954 Panchsheel agreement — so (d) is the answer.
- Panchsheel was formalised in the 1954 India-China Agreement (Nehru and Zhou Enlai).
- The five principles are territorial integrity and sovereignty; non-aggression; non-interference; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful coexistence.
- Nuclear non-proliferation is not a Panchsheel principle — it is the subject of the NPT (1968).
- Panchsheel later influenced the Bandung Conference (1955) and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Nuclear non-proliferation is not one of the five — hence the answer is (d).
- Mixing genuine Panchsheel principles with modern ideas like non-proliferation or non-alignment.
- Forgetting that Panchsheel has exactly FIVE principles.
Asked as 'which is / is not a Panchsheel principle', or by dating Panchsheel to the 1954 India-China Agreement.
Which one of the following is NOT a principle of "Panchsheel"?
- (a) Non-alignment
- (b) Peaceful Co-existence
- (c) Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty
- (d) Mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs
Answer(a) Non-alignment
Nearly identical concept — the odd-one-out among the Panchsheel principles. UPSC's non-principle is 'non-alignment'; this NDA item's non-principle is 'nuclear non-proliferation'.
Which of the following is NOT a part of the five principles enshrined in the 'Panchsheel' agreement signed by India and China in 1954?
- (a) Mutual non-aggression
- (b) Mutual non-interference
- (c) Peaceful coexistence
- (d) Cultural cooperation
Answer(d) Cultural cooperation
Same concept and same format — the odd-one-out among the five Panchsheel principles. There the intruder is 'cultural cooperation'; here it is 'nuclear non-proliferation'.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In which year were the Panchsheel principles formally enunciated?
- (a)1947
- (b)1950
- (c)1954
- (d)1962
Answer(c) 1954 — in the Sino-Indian Agreement over Tibet.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which one of the following is a Panchsheel principle?
- (a)Nuclear disarmament
- (b)Peaceful coexistence
- (c)Collective security
- (d)Free trade
Answer(b) Peaceful coexistence — the fifth Panchsheel principle.