In the heady first months after it came to power, the Bush administration laid out a bold new vision that gave India – a rising Asian democracy on China’s border, proximate to the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean and to the epicenter of Islamist terrorism – a starring role in US foreign policy. The argument to India was essentially this: You need us to realize your ambition to become a major world power, and we share a concern over China’s rise and Islamist terrorism, so let’s work together.