Implosion
“There have, of course, been moments when it has successfully reasserted itself internationally since then, notably with its nuclear tests in May 1998 and its growing economic importance in the 2000s, plus a new constructive relationship with the US. These positive developments, however, have been offset by other events, and India has never rebuilt anything near the international self-confidence and presence that Jawaharlal Nehru displayed immediately after independence in 1947.Pakistan matched ...India’s nuclear capability by testing weapons (developed with China’s help) two weeks after India’s tests in 1998. This diluted the regional significance of what India had done, although, on a broader international front, the tests did lead to the new interest from the US. Predictably, this did not lift India’s international clout for long, and indeed it complicated relations with China. India’s economic ebullience of the 2000s then floundered by 2011 in a morass of corruption scandals, populist politics, weak government leadership, and declining rates of economic growth.MoreLess
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