Challenge: India US ally earlier

POD of 1954, make this happen. I've always found it interesting that Pakistan rather than India was the beneficiary of US attention. Bonus for doing it with Indira in power for OTL period, double bonus if Nixon is not elected POTUS in 1960 or 1968.
 
Maybe something with preventing JFK's assassination, the US teaching India how to make Nuclear weapons after the Sino-Indian War, a second Sino-Indian War, and a Sino-Soviet Drift instead of the dramatic split of OTL. And we probably need some action from India that would make the US see the Indians as anti-Soviet.
 
POD of 1954, make this happen. I've always found it interesting that Pakistan rather than India was the beneficiary of US attention. Bonus for doing it with Indira in power for OTL period, double bonus if Nixon is not elected POTUS in 1960 or 1968.

best bet is probably to increase sino-indian tensions (and probably butterfly away Nixon going to china), and have Nehru et al run a less protectionist economy (more markets for americans). Maybe mess around with the Pakistani leadership as well; instead of a series of military and relativly religious governments, have a socialist-leaning government come to power (although to manage this you may have to mess around with the formation of the muslim league and even the congress party, which will have major effects on indian independence, and may butterfly away pakistan (though this could lead america to focus on india)).
 
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