What prevented India from becoming Communist?

Question

After World War 2? Wasn't the Soviet Union like their biggest ally? during the Cold War?

Answer 1

i guess the people or we have faced so much of dictatorship that we dont want any more of them

Answer 2

A rare commonsense.

Answer 3

India only depended on the USSR when it came to weapons and economy. Maybe it was because India was too poor to become Communist and not automatically die.

Answer 4

But doesn't India have lots more compassion toward rights of their people than the Soviet Union ever has?  Ghandi?

I think the U.S. is working hard at upgrading their standard of living by encouraging big business to provide jobs to their college graduates at low wages considered in the U.S.  Plus it does the US lots of good to be involved in that country (or to have our hands in the middle east with a country at our side).

Answer 5

the british empire set up the government and instituted voting, so they elected a british-style system. however don't forget about kerala and other places that were communist for years. freely elected communist governments.

Answer 6

India has her own ideology & like any other dignified nation, India can not sacrifice it at any cost.

Answer 7

Ties between India and the Soviet Union initially were distant. Nehru had expressed admiration for the Soviet Union's rapid economic transformation, but the Soviet Union regarded India as a "tool of Anglo-American imperialism." After Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union expressed its hopes for "friendly cooperation" with India. This aim was prompted by the Soviet decision to broaden its international contacts and to cultivate the nonaligned and newly independent countries of Asia and Africa. Nehru's state visit to the Soviet Union in June 1955 was the first of its kind for an Indian prime minister. It was followed by the trip of Premier Nikolai Bulganin and General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to India in November and December 1955. The Soviet leaders endorsed the entire range of Indian foreign policy based on the Panch Shila and supported India's position against Pakistan on Kashmir. The Soviet Union also supported India's position vis-à-vis Portugal on Goa, which was territorially integrated into India as a union territory by the Indian armed forces in December 1961 .

The Soviet Union and some East European countries offered India new avenues of trade and economic assistance. By 1965 the Soviet Union was the second largest national contributor to India's development. These new arrangements contributed to India's emergence as a significant industrial power through the construction of plants to produce steel, heavy machinery and equipment, machine tools, and precision instruments, and to generate power and extract and refine petroleum. Soviet investment was in India's public-sector industry, which the World Bank  and Western industrial powers had been unwilling to assist until spurred by Soviet competition. Soviet aid was extended on the basis of long-term, government-to-government programs, which covered successive phases of technical training for Indians, supply of raw materials, progressive use of Indian inputs, and markets for finished products. Bilateral arrangements were made in nonconvertible national currencies, helping to conserve India's scarce foreign exchange. Thus the Soviet contribution to Indian economic development was generally regarded by foreign and domestic observers as positive.