Why West is so uncomfortable with rising India and happy to sponsor its enemies

India has adversaries, ‘frenemies’ and, at best, well-wishers. The mixed signals of hostility and cooperation emanating from the US towards India need explanation despite an Indian inclination to misread them by erroneously differentiating between US societal actors and the actual policymaking elite. Yet, US policy towards India remains apparently perplexing to many Indians in its two contrary dimensions of cooperation and simultaneous undermining of the legitimacy of the Indian state. In fact, the US is serenely insouciant about extremely serious real human rights violations occurring in ‘friendly’ countries and has even The reason for belligerent US disquiet with India is blindingly obvious and extremely consequential, even if shockingly unrecognised by India’s elite and professionals, whose green card-holder relatives are often enjoying an American dream reserved for a privileged few there. In relation to India, the policy of the US and countries like Britain, with its long experience of chicanery in India and infinite knowledge of the compromised psyche of Indians, and others like Germany, are awaiting the demographic transformation in India that will permanently and, with constitutional legitimacy, exclude the majority from political power and end India’s assertion of sovereign national prerogatives.