India always tended to stay equidistant from the two power blocs.The country enjoyed good relations with America under the Democrats like Truman. However Eisenhower's election and the return of the Republicans in 1952 brought about a change. The Dulles brothers in particular were suspicious about Nehru's socialist credentials and their biases shaped American policy.The prevailing sentiment was ,'If you're not with us, you're a Commie !' American thinkers and opinion-makers however did not take into account India's inherent stability and inclination towards multi-cultural, pluralistic democracy.A great opportunity was lost for the world's two largest democracies to come together when America enlisted Pakistan as a client state. Mandeep ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <lyonsfab@optusnet.com.au> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:37 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Second world war > Does anyone know whether there was any inclination that if India got > independent then there was a chance of her going towards Russia and may be > becoming a communistic country? Therefore America tried to intervene and > did > best to keep India and Russia relationship at a distance. Was this a truth > or a myth? Can anyone help me with this please. Thanks > Esther > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Can someone from the list help me with where I could write to get the service record of someone who served the British military in India during the British Raj in 1930 - 1940 till independence of India. thanks Esther

> From: lyonsfab@optusnet.com.au > To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:03:51 +1100 > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] British Army Records > > Can someone from the list help me with where I could write to get the > service record of someone who served the British military in India during > the British Raj in 1930 - 1940 till independence of India. thanks > Esther > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Windows Live is here http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live