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Analyse any three different views within India about the type of relationship India should have with the U.S.

Or

Analyse the differences in relationship between India and Bangladesh.

Answer:

In the post-Cold War era, the Indian Foreign policy has shifted to more pro US stand. The present India?s foreign policy emphasises more on economic interest in place of military.

However, three possible strategies have been suggested through debates by Indian analyst:

(i) Aloofness from US: By observing military nature of US hegemony and closeness between India and US, some Indian analyst suggests that India should maintain its aloofness from Washington and focus upon increasing its own comprehensive national power.

(ii) Take advantage of US hegemony: Other group of analysts see growing convergence of interest between the US and India as a historic opportunity for India. They advocate a strategy that would allow India to take advantage of US hegemony and the mutual convergences to establish the best possible option for itself. According to them opposing US is futile strategy that will only hurt India in a long run.

(iii) India should join coalition to challenges US hegemony. The third strategy suggested by the analysts is that India should take the lead in establishing a coalition of countries from the developing world and over the time, coalition would become more powerful and may succeed in weakening the hegemony away from its dominating ways.

By observing the above strategies we can conclude that Indo-US relations are perhaps too complex to be managed by a single strategy. Actually India needs to develop a mixed strategy in its foreign policy to deal with the US by maintaining its own identity in the global hegemony.

Or

The population of East Pakistan had voted to protest against years of being treated as second class citizens. In 1971 the Pakistan arrested the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and unleashed a reign of terror on the people of East Pakistan. People took shelter in the neighbouring areas of India. India extended moral and material support to the freedom struggle in Bangladesh. Welcomed and supported by the local population, the Indian army made rapid progress in East Pakistan. Within 10 days Indian army had surrounded Dhaka from three sides and 90,000 strong army of Pakistan had to surrender. Now as a new free country Bangladesh, India declared a unilateral ceasefire. India gave shelter to refugees but these Bangladeshi refugee have become a problem for India as they did not returned back. They entered every state of India and demanding shelter and jobs.

Another issue water sharing of Teesta, Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers.

Some terrorist group are active in Bangladesh who are involved in terrorism activities against India. Bangladesh is not able to tackle the problem of terror activities.

On disaster management and environmental issues, the two countries have cooperated regularly.