USA and India. Their relation since India's independence

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,0, Martin Luther University (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: India: English Colonial Policy, Commonwealth, Transformation and Foreign Policy towards the USA, language: English, abstract: This term paper, with the title "e;U.S. - India relations since India's independence and the rapprochement of the two cultures in the course of globalization"e;, examines the importance of the politics of Jawaharlal Nehru and his successors for India's development into a leading power in South Asia, and the impact of these politics on the relations between the United States of America and India (1947 - 2009). Moreover, it deals with the question how globalization, since India's economic liberalization in 1991, affects the U.S. - India relations, and what changes it causes for the two countries and their citizens.