India-U.S. Relations

Summary

This report discusses issues regarding contemporary relations between India and the U.S. Continuing U.S. interest in South Asia focuses on ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan, a problem rooted in unfinished business from the 1947 Partition and competing claims to the Kashmir region. The United States also seeks to curtail the

proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in South Asia. U.S. concerns

about human rights issues related to regional dissidence and separatism in several

Indian states also continue.