Indo US Relations : From Estrangement to Engagement

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Kashmir, human rights and terrorism. 3. Managing the nuclear divide. 4. The economic imperatives. 5. Domestic inputs of relationship. 6. Modi’s policy towards America. 7. Conclusion. Index.

India and the US, the two greatest and populous democracies of the world, have had so many ups and downs during the period of Cold War mainly because of their different strategies perspectives. India’s refusal to be a blind camp follower of America in the name of containing communism irritated the US policy makers and forces them to shift their attention towards Pakistan. Consequently as rightly pointed out by many scholars in the field of Indo-US relations witnessed more ups and then downs because of their divergent perspectives on bilateral and multilateral issues. The collapse of the Soviet Union and failure of communist model of economy forced the Indian policy makers to go for a paradigm shift in the early 1990’s which gradually brought the great democracies than ever before.

In this context this book is a humble attempt to analyse the Indo-US relations from multidimensional perspectives from the period of Bill Clinton to Barack Obama.