A Million Salutes

Sen, Ronojoy

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“…342–56). New Delhi, of course, justified these deals as savers of much needed foreign exchange by paying for them in rupees (Sen, 2014, p. 106).…”

Section: Balancing Against the United States (And Its Allies): Militamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What many do not popularly associate either company with is their collaborations with the leaders of the US automobile industry. Since 1949, as PAL imported and assembled ‘Dodge, Plymouth, and DeSoto badged cars’ alongside ‘trucks with Dodge, Fargo, and DeSoto branding’, HM had ‘an assembly deal with Studebaker’ (Sen, 2014, pp. 63–64).…”

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In his reciprocal address, delivered months before India embarked on a nationalisation spree, Roche extolled the Indira Gandhi government’s economic policies as ‘flexible [and] market-oriented’ (Correspondent, 1968b). GM, like Ford, had established its own assembly setup in India in the early twentieth century (Sen, 2014, pp. 59–60).…”

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…59–60). An Indian auto-maker that did often have its repute linked to an American brand for long was Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), which possessed the license to locally ‘assemble the Willys Jeep CJ3B’, its flagship all-terrain civilian derivative of the Willys G-503 military utility vehicle for the US Army in the Second World War (Sen, 2014, pp. 72–73).…”

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soviet Tanks, American Sedans: Traces of India’s Cold War-era Hedging Towards the United States, 1966–1971

Tiwary¹,

Roy

2021

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Having fought its third war and staring at food shortages, independent India needed to get its act together both militarily and economically by the mid-1960s. With the United States revoking its military assistance and delaying its food aid despite New Delhi’s devaluation of the rupee, India’s newly elected Indira Gandhi government turned to deepen its ties with the Soviet Union in 1966 with the aim of balancing the United States internally through a rearmament campaign and externally through a formal alliance with Moscow. The US formation of a triumvirate with Pakistan and China in India’s neighbourhood only bolstered its intent. Yet India consciously limited the extent of both its balancing strategies and allowed adequate space to simultaneously adopt the contradictory sustenance of its complex interdependence with the United States economically. Did this contrasting choice of strategies constitute India’s recourse to hedging after 1966 until 1971, when it liberated Bangladesh by militarily defeating a US-aligned Pakistan? Utilising a historical-evaluative study of archival data and the contents of a few Bollywood films from the period, this paper seeks to address the question by empirically establishing the extents of India’s balancing of, and complex interdependence with, the United States.

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“…342–56). New Delhi, of course, justified these deals as savers of much needed foreign exchange by paying for them in rupees (Sen, 2014, p. 106).…”

Section: Balancing Against the United States (And Its Allies): Militamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultivating Complex Interdependence With the United States: mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soviet Tanks, American Sedans: Traces of India’s Cold War-era Hedging Towards the United States, 1966–1971

Tiwary¹,

Roy

2021

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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A Million Salutes

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Soviet Tanks, American Sedans: Traces of India’s Cold War-era Hedging Towards the United States, 1966–1971

Soviet Tanks, American Sedans: Traces of India’s Cold War-era Hedging Towards the United States, 1966–1971

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