right now Indian economy has taken a large size but till 70s and 80s, per capita income of Russia was more than 12 times to that of China and around 11 times bigger than India. there was only US Vs SU/Russia till 1990 and Pakistan was in group of US/UK since 1947 while India had joined SU by mid 60s. during 1971 war, Pakistan was heaving equipped with US's/western arms while India was equipped with Russian arms only, like how Mig21 performed for India during that war. while British interests was just to keep India within limits with keeping Pakistan in this region to engage India with Pakistan only. SU/Russia used Veto very frequently in favor of India during that period while US/UK just tried to catch India somewhere to put different sanctions on India which were defeated by SU's Veto's. India openly formed NAM against NATO, did nuclear test in 1974 which angered US/UK much and then they put sanctions on India and since then India couldnt get uranium fuel supply since 1974 till 2009, neither India got any help from NSG in terms of any nuclear energy co-operation till 2009. even during nuclear deal drama in late 2008, between India and West, heavy dramas were made and many times it looked like that deal was gone but somehow it could be agreed after heavy negotiations..........
India and US/UK were never together, neither during British Rule nor since Independence in 1947. it was in fact indian first PM Mr Nehru for was among the founder member of NAM against NATO. even if Indian professionals migrated to US from 50s to 90s, (similarly how British have been taking Indian top skills during last 2 centuries), it was heavily criticized by Indian media as they named it 'Brain Drain' as there were not enough engineering/ medical institutes in India till late 90s and the creamy layer was being taken by US's firms by offering good salaries to Indian professionals, like how British also took Indian creamy layer during last 2 centuries
. and even right now, sometimes it looks like China is the prime target of US/West ,or, sometimes it looks like that they have put India on the first target and they are trying to negotiate with rest of the world........................