A strategic overview of UK-India relations
Despite India’s economic relations with UK being right on track, the emergence of newer superpowers and political uncertainties have weakened the UK’s standing, potentially resulting in India gaining an upper hand. Narendra Modi’s first term coincided with the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. For the UK, this meant that politics turned inward. While some grandiose if unlikely global visions were put forward—including the patronising, and temporally implausible, Empire 2.0—the question of the UK’s relationship to its European neighbours [...]