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What made USA to go with Pakistan in early 1950s to 2000?

Who was responsible for differences in Indo-US relations in early 1950s to 2000? Recently India's foreign minister S. Jaishankar criticized first PM J.L.Nehru for not forging good relations with USA. Let us clear what was the actual scenario at that time and we will see India's foreign policy approach with respect to USA in early days just after independence to upto 2000. As we all know that after the second world war there was cold war era from 1945 to 1991 between westerns block of democratic countries led by USA and eastern bloc of communist countries led by USSR. It was also the era of independence as many Asian and African countries getting independence mainly from western block countries. India's first Prime Minister J.L.Nehru was a visionary leader and he knew the value of hard earned independence. So he didn't want any interference in India's internal and external matters. He wanted to maintain India's sovereignty. So he decided not to join any of the tw...