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Terms of estrangement | The Indian Express

Written by Christophe Jaffrelot |Updated: July 3, 2019 1:30:55 am

Christophe Jaffrelot is senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King's India Institute, London, and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He offers valuable insights on South Asian politics, particularly the methods and motivations of the Hindu right in India.

Terms of estrangement

India-US tensions are fuelled by rise of national-populism in both, Delhi’s policy of multi-alignment

Narendra Modi, pm modi, donald trum, us president, india us tension, india us relation, mike pompeo, indian express — US President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS)

India-US tensions — that the Narendra Modi-Donald Trump conversations on the occasion of the Osaka G-20 meeting have hardly attenuated — are the logical outcome, not only of the rise of national-populism in both countries, but also of New Delhi’s quest for multi-alignment.