Building and operating large fleet carriers requires a demanding set of technical, organizational, and operational skills. Although the Indians are a capable and energetic people, their civilian and military bureaucracies are notoriously slow, corrupt, and incompetent. US help will likely be unavailing against such obstacles, with the US ending up resented as a meddling foreign know-it-all. The one possible remedy might be to use Indian-American engineers able to deflect such resentments.
An Indian described the challenges they face, and the most basic was the idea of a nation itself. He described how India should be viewed more as a continent of many peoples rather than a country of one people; there are so many different cultures and languages that unity is practically impossible. When English has to be used as the unifying language because the country is split between so many (primarily Hindi in the north and Tamil in the south, joined by many others), you realize that there are huge obstacles for a massive country that is still so young.
When Franco emerged victorious from the Spanish Civil War, he quickly arranged for Castilian Spanish to be used as the official language of the country. Gallego, Basque, and Catalan languages weren’t banned outright; they just wouldn’t be used in official capacities or taught in schools. He saw no other way to eliminate the regional mindsets that had contributed to the war itself; Gallego and Castilian portions had primarily supported the military uprising, while Basque and Catalan sections supported the communist government.