Don’t you think they think of us as wells they think of the Brits? During the cold war they sided too much with the Soviets. If it weren’t for the Chicoms they’d have no use for us. Pakistan is another story. They played us too so India may have a good reason for having a bone to pick with us.
Every person on Earth listens to the same radio station, WII-FM. Know what that is?
India has a love-hate relationship with the British - just as the USA had in the 1800s. It remembers the bad and the good, but mostly it see’s it as the past.
The USA is looked on fondly (except for Nixon - I’ll get to that in a minute) - they remember that it was the USA that pushed for Indian independence and that Eisenhower was a strong friend of India AND that the USA supported India in its 1965 war with China
However in 1971 Henry Kissinger threatened India during the Bangladeshi independence and also sent in a US aircraft carrier to threaten India. That was not looked on well and firmly pushed India into the Soviet camp.
Clinton with his sanctions on India didn’t help
But Bush changed that and now the relationship is of friends - not allies yet, but with no reason NOT to be - on nearly all matters their interests and ours overlap