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Just a repost of some earlier declassed documents on how US consider India a "Soviet Stooge" and hence the harsh anti-Indian policies that followed Nixon/Kissinger Saw India as "Soviet Stooge" in 1971 South Asia Crisis Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005 - President Nixon and his national...

Yes, that's true, India was always pursuing a NAM approach, but the thing is about perception India under Congress was perceived to be pro-soviet. Nehru and other Congress leaders would always say that they would keep Indian interests paramount even above British and US interests. This was...

Hi ant80, I suggest you read Narendra S. Sarila's excellent book "In the shadow of the Great Game". He has based his book on declassified documents of the British and US govt. in the 2005. It clearly shows what I mentioned about British and by extension American strategic interests. Mainly...

Hi LethalForce, US will look after its national/strategic interests. During the cold war, anti-soviet concerns dominated over everything else. Infact, one of the main reasons for Pakistan’s creation was because the Congress party had many communist sympathisers and was allied to the CPI...

Well its not surprising if you know that the very creation of Pakistan was for protecting their strategic interests. This included protecting the oil fields of the fledgling gulf states and act as a bulwark against USSR. The book by Narendra S. Sarila "The Shadow of the Great Game" is a must in...