- Swami Vivekananda who introduced Yoga and Vedanta to America.
- he introduced Eastern thought at the World's Parliament of Religions.
- Despite being one of the pioneers and founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, India developed a closer relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- After the collapse of the Soviet Union, India began to review its foreign policy in a unipolar world
- closer ties with the European Union and the United States.
- Clinton and Bush administration, relations between India and the United States blossomed
- over common concerns regarding growing Islamic extremism
- slight downturn in India-U.S. relations following the election of Barack Obama as the President of the United States in 2009.
- Obama administration's desire to increase relations with China
- After Indian independence until the end of the cold war, the relationship between the two nations has often been thorny.
- Barack Obama's protectionist views on dealing with the economic crisis.
- Dwight Eisenhower was the first U.S. President to visit India in 1959.
- John F. Kennedy's period as President, he saw India as a strategic partner against the rise of communist China.
- From 1961 to 1963 there was a promise to help set up a large steel mill in Bokaro that was withdrawn by the U.S.
- 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pakistani wars did not help their relations.
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee became Indian Prime Minister, he authorized a nuclear weapons test in Pokhran, which got the immediate attention of the US.
- In March 2000, President Bill Clinton visited India
- He had bilateral and economic discussions with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- During the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the , President George W. Bush chose India as the country to control and police the Indian Ocean sea-lanes from the Suez to Singapore.
- The tsunami that occurred in December 2004 saw the U.S. and Indian navies to work together
- An Open Skies Agreement was made in April 2005
- Air India purchased 68 U.S. Boeing aircraft, which cost $8 billion.
- After Hurricane Katrina, India donated $5 million to the American Red Cross and sent 2 plane loads
- U.S. base in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia
- Major items exported by India to the U.S. include Information Technology Services, textiles, machinery, ITeS, gems and diamonds, chemicals, iron and steel products, coffee, tea, and other edible food products.
- Major American items imported by India include aircraft, fertilizers, computer hardware, scrap metal and medical equipment.
- In July 2005, President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh created a new program called the Trade Policy Forum
- interaction of companies from both countries regarding new policies related to Indian media and broadcasting.
- The Foreign Policy magazine reported that even though Foreign Policy Staff of the previous administration had recommended India as a "key stop"
- India's National Security Adviser, M.K. Narayanan, criticized the Obama administration for linking the Kashmir dispute to the instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan
- The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a close aide of India's main opposition party the BJP, said that if the United States continues with its anti-outsourcing policies, then India will "have to take steps to hurt American companies in India.
- Obama administration cleared the US$2.1 billion sale of eight P-8 Poseidons to India
- strengthening of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and has pressurized India to sign the agreement.
- Shyam Saran, "warned" the United States that India would continue to oppose any such treaty as it was "discriminatory".
- U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen encouraged stronger military ties between India and the United States
35 POINTS ON US-India Relationship
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