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1. See Selig Harrison and Geoffrey Kemp, Irulia and America: After the Cold War, Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1991.

2. See Bruce Reidel, ‘American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House’, Policy Paper Series, Centre for the Advanced Study of India, 2002.

3. See Dennis Kux, ‘India’s Fine Balance’, Foreign Affairs, May–June 2002, Vol. 81, No.3.

4. Washington File, 17 January 2001.

5. See Amit Gupta, The US–Irulia Relationship: Strategic Partnership or Complementary Interests? February 2005, http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi

6. Colin Powell, People, Progress, Partnership: The Transformation of US-India Relations, New Delhi: Embassy of the USA, 2005.

7. Ibid.

8. K. Alan Kronstadt, India–US Relations, Congressional Research Service (Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division), Library of Congress, 2004.

9. From the text of the speech on ‘US–India Relations: The Making of a Comprehensive Relationship’ by Robert Blake, Charge d’ Affairs, at Army War College in Indore, India, on 23 August 2004, released by US Embassy in India, 2004.

10. From the text of Dr Manmohan Singh’s Address to the Joint Session of the US Congress, published on 19 July 2005.

11. Far Eastern Ecorwmic Review, 23 July 2005, p. 29.

12. For details see Praful Bidai, ‘India Moves Toward a New Compact with the United States’, Foreign Policy in Focus, 14 July 2003.

13. Alan Larson, Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, entitled ‘Raising the Bar: US–India Economic Relations’, delivered at the Economic Summit, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai, 16 September 2004.

14. Speech by David C. Mulford, US Ambassador to India, on ‘US–India Partnership: Creating Economic Opportunities in Agriculture’, CII, Chandigarh, 16 April 2004.

15. Excerpts from the Trumball Lecture by P. Chidambaram on ‘US–India Economic Relations and the Evolving World Economy’, at Yale University, 22 September 2005.

16. Ibid.

17. See US–India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative, released by the US State Department, 4 November 2005.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. For details see R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, ‘Hearing on US–India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative’, prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington DC, 2 November 2005.

22. Thorn Shanker, ‘Senate Approves Nuclear Cooperation with India’, New York Times, 16 November 2006.

23. Barry Posen, ‘Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of US Hegemony’, International Security, Vol. 28, No. 1, Summer 2003, pp. 7–15. For an excellent portrayal of the subject further see Amit Gupta, op. cit.

24. See M. K. Bhadrakumar, ‘India Shifts Gear on Iraq Policy’, http:/www.atimes.com, 2 February 2007.

25. Ibid.

26. Nicholas Bums, ‘United State Policy Toward Iran’, opening statements before the House International Relations Committee, US Department of State, Washington D.C., 8 March 2006.

27. ‘The United States–India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act’, Fact Sheet,Office of the Press Secretary, White House, 18 December 2006.

28. Nicholas Bums, op. cit.

29. Iason Athanasiadis, ‘A Troubled Triangle: Iran, India and Pakistan’, Asia Times, 22 April 2005.

30. See Alyssa Ayres, ‘Is India Emerging as France of Asia: Warming Sino-Indian Relationship tells the US that India Is not an Unconditional Ally’, Yale Global,21 November 2006.

31. Amit Gupta, op. cit.

32. ‘Analysis on the Record: Hemy Kissinger’, Indian Express,16 November 2004. Also see Sumit Ganguly, ‘India’s Foreign Policy Grows Up’, World Policy journal, Winter 2003–2004.

33. IANS interview, 23 October 2008, Chicago, Illinois.