Friday, September 5, 2008

The Indian policy makers too were forced to placate the superpower.

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America has been Bangalored, Bill has been Gated, and the sole superpower has been Bushed and Singhed.

India-specific slumberCoincidental circumstances in the late 1990s converged to create an environment that allowed Indians to partially control America’s policy-making process. Manmohanomics and P. Chidambaram’s dream budget in those days obviously shook the US out of its India-specific slumber. Suddenly, a huge market was opening out to its corporations. But still, the process of Indo-US bonding was somewhat flirtatious, more apprehensive, and it looked like the two would go through a long period of dating and wooing. The marriage seemed far, far away.

However, the catalyst that expedited the legalisation of the relationship came in 1998, when India – and subsequently Pakistan – blasted its way into the nuclear club. Economic sanctions by most developed nations, especially America, hung like a Damocles’ sword over India’s head. The Indian policy makers too were forced to placate the superpower. True, there was a sense of arrogance; the late Pramod Mahajan, a senior BJP leader, told journalists that if China could buy its way out of the Tiananmen Square massacre by placing huge orders for American goods (like Boeing aircraft), India could do the same.

At the same time, there was an urgency to engage with America, which led to several rounds of talks between the then Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh and Strobe Talbot. Since most of the Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in the US had either links with BJP’s ideological wings like the RSS, or believed in the Hindu way of life, the NDA government could mobilise the community to lobby for India’s interests. The Indian Americans suddenly found themselves neck-deep in a situation that they were never comfortable with. They became the informal lobbyists.


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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