At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig.
China is now Indiaâs top trading partnerâand one of its least liked. Some of China's mountain of imports into India. India and Chinaâtwo massive, neighboring Asian emerging economies, each home to over a billion peopleâare on the way to forming one of the worldâs largest trade relationships.
With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of India's more outward-looking economic policies, the United States became increasingly important for India.In the mid-1990s, the United States was India's largest trading partner and a major source of technology and investment (see Aid; Trade, ch.6).ith the end of the Cold War and the emergence of India's more outward-looking economic policies, the United States became increasingly important for India.