12:52 AM ET
By Bruce
Stokes, Special to CNN
Editor’s
note: Bruce Stokes is the director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research
Center . The views
expressed are the writer’s own.
During the
Cold War, the Indian government attempted to position itself between Moscow and Washington
by claiming leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement. As Indians head to the
polls over the next six weeks, their country again finds itself in a world with
two preeminent powers: this time, China
and the United States .
And the
Indian public is fairly clear where its sympathies lie: with America . Of
course, how such attitudes will influence the views of the next Indian
government remains to be seen. But, for now at least, there appears to be no
evidence of broad anti-Americanism on the sub-continent.