I think you are the one who is ignorant here-Russia was the biggest backer of the N.A esp it's Uzbek & Tajik elements with the likes of Iran,Uzbekistan & India pitching in.Just google up 'Northern Alliance & Russia'.
About Nepal-Im referring to the period of the 80s & after,which you've conviniently ignored.If anything in recent upheaval,the King was backed by China & Pakistan.
& exactly,who is entitled to export democracy???Countries which are flawed or ones which have sustained tinpots as long as it suited them???
Well King & M.K Gandhi were the same-both were unelected who represented very relevant causes.
As to those allowed to export democracy, you can't very well export what you don't have. India's government will survive right up until some new extremist group decides to start assassinating leaders, then it will all come tumbling down, with each sect -- Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Westernized pseudo-Christian -- scrambling for its share of the wealth.
Even if the government remains relatively stable, the US shares no ideological ground with India. Indeed, that country much more in common with China than with the US. So since India's "friendship" is merely a purchased commodity, it is logical to believe that another consumer willing to pay more can purchase the same friendship out from under us.