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Comprehensively examine the major developments/trends in Indo-US relations since the early 1990s. Do you visualise the strengthening of ties between the two nations? Substantiate.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 60 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The end of the Cold War, India's 1991 liberalisation and the later rise of China turned what Dennis Kux called "estranged democracies" into partners. Since the early 1990s the relationship has moved from suspicion to alignment without alliance: deep cooperation with no mutual defence obligation. The ties will probably keep strengthening, within limits India sets…

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