Why don't you bother looking into the establishment of a democratic Bangladesh,promotion of democracy in Nepal & Afghanistan before asking what India knows??& How many Indian leaders have been assasinated while in office??
India will cozy up to China............provided they give up 20,000 sq.miles of Indian territory,stop pointing nukes at India & stop arming Pakistan.IOW,Never.
Please tell me you're not citing Bangladesh as an example of anything but disaster on a grand scale. The establishment of that state was marked by one of the greatest humanitarian horrors since the Holocaust! To this day, the "democratic" government of Bangladesh can barely manage its affairs.
As to Nepal and Afghanistan, how does India deserve any credit for either of those? Government in Nepal is a hodgepodge of constitutional, parliamentary, and monarchical relics, owning much more to England than to India. And the Karzai government is a product of Allied power, with some minimal assistance from Delhi in subduing the Pakastani/Kashmir wilderness.
From Mohandas Gandhi on, the fate of Indian leaders is to die at the hand of some internal extremist. M. Gandhi, Indira, Rajiv ... all dead.
India has made tremendous strides from the days of the Raj's, but it has little to offer the United States. However, as terrified as we are of the Yellow Peril, we'll mortgage our future to the good lads in Hyderabad, who will gladly pocket our money and look for another "john."