[India fought 4 wars with Pakistan. USA backed Pakistan in every one of those 4 wars. USA is still giving Pakistan Billions in foreign aid every year. I can’t blame India for being suspicious of USA.]
Actually Nehru asked Kennedy for help during the 1962 China war and Kennedy agreed to deploy the USAF in NE India. The Chinese were forced to withdraw from their occupied territories.
After Nehru, the Russkies got their toe in the Indian door when the US supplied lots of contemporary weapons to Pakistan and when Nixon put his full weight behind Pakistan, sending the Enterprise BG to threaten India during the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, the die was cast. It was Nixon who finally kicked India into the Russki Camp.
Read "The Blood Telegram" by by the then US Consul in Dhaka, Archer Blood to know just how Nixon felt about India. And the Genocide he permitted.
the fact is India was basically part of Soviet war planning as an asset available to its forces
as a matter of fact, the Russians never even got a staging post on Indian territory, forget troops or a base. India troops have gone abroad only under the auspices of the UN except the deployment to Sri Lanka and the air armada to Maldives which were in danger of being overrun by terrorists. Both deployments in response to the countries appeals for help.