ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the India-US relations beginning from the Roosevelt era to the end of the Cold War, a period lasting over four decades. Both countries witnessed extraordinary vicissitudes, emanating from the deeply entrenched Cold War psychology on both sides. The chapter suggests that Indo-American relations during the Cold War period were hamstrung by India's non-aligned policy, its socialist economy, and a heavy tilt towards the Soviet Union, attributed to its overriding geopolitical compulsions. Accidently, the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union heralded a dramatic transformation in Indo-US relations. The Nixon administration perceived US relations with India and Pakistan through the Cold War prism of bashing a non-aligned India and rewarding a militarily aligned Pakistan. The Cold War era was on the verge of ending, with dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 19.
